The tech giants behind the AI boom have become too big to fail and are using their position to mount an assault on labor.

  • wizblizz@lemmy.worldM
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    4 days ago

    For the " AI is jUsT a ToOl" folks, yeah, a tool for the owners to keep workers destitute and miserable and compliant.

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      That IS all tools! It’s why the Luddites smashed looms in textile factories. It’s why Marx said the workers need to own the means of production.

      AI is a tool and it wouldn’t be a problem if workers owned the ai tools instead of capitalists.

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      A CEO once said to me “there wouldn’t be layoffs across the industry if the tools didn’t work”

      I said “the people doing the layoffs aren’t the ones using the tools. They have no idea if they work, they are just justifying layoffs”

      I don’t think I changed his mind but he certainly didn’t have a rebuttal

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      The working class won’t revolt if you lean juuuust far enough where they’re complacent. Amazon I think has a system like this on pushing a person just before they would actually leave.

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        the working class isn’t going to revolt bc they’re too busy getting stupid watching TikTok and some are too poor to worry about this BS they’re just trying to put food on the table