Careful what you wish for buddy. When we’re all unemployed, we’ll be coming for you.
Is it actually wiping jobs?
No and 10 posts up my feed i saw this The Number of People Using AI at Work Is Suddenly Falling
I remember reading a report earlier this year which said that most people who used AI at work found that they didn’t have much use for it and it didn’t make them more productive. So that tracks.
Makes sense that tech CEOs are still pushing it as the miracle tech which will make humans obsolete, though.
My jobs is fairly low level administration, and I have point blank refused to use the AI tools they are trying to force on us. My reasoning to management is that I’ve never needed it before. My reasoning to my colleagues is that I’m not fucking training it to replace me.
Obligatory FUCK GOOGLE
Is there any big tech CEO who’s not a total moron or that’s a specific requisite needed for the role
Is it all as intended. They didn’t stumble into this.
Not necessarily morons, although many are, just sociopaths. They are so rich and powerful and removed from normal society, they don’t have to care.
They don’t have to work hard, they don’t have to think critically, they don’t have to compromise, they don’t have to worry.
It’s like the monarchs and aristocracy of old, so far removed from society, most things we consider virtues are considered insulting to them.
Remember when Bill Gates “worked” for a few hours at a Dairy Queen scooping ice cream? It’s a demonstration of elitism, they can choose to play working class for an afternoon, like an outfit they try on.
Oh how quaint, the little workers going about their day scooping ice cream and making fries! Mummy, I want to try to be an ice cream worker today!
Them having to adapt due to a job loss looks very different than what it is for the median American. If every American had an unlimited, worry-free safety net to support them while they navigate employment disruptions, you wouldn’t be hearing the guillotine noises you hear today. In fact you’d be able to realize some form of “creative destruction” and working conditions would drasticaly improve since people would actually afford to quit bad jobs.
Almost none of them are morons. They are all cunning, sophisticated and they spend all their time on work and their goals.
No need to underestimate them.
If anything their weaknesses lie in arrogance, ignorance (not the same thing as being stupid) and low tolerance of dealing with challenges they haven’t encountered. As things stand today, this weaknesses haven’t really caused them any problems, but that doesn’t this will always be true.
Yes. We’ll have to.
I propose we make some minor changes to the standard guillotine though, as potentially we will need to use it in a zero gravity environment when these fuckers try to escape to space.
I believe a pair of micro-rockets would give the blade assembly the appropriate near-gravity acceleration, but we do need to run the numbers to ensure we don’t end up with single use devices. That would be so wasteful.
Why not a slow hydraulic cylinder to push the blade down?
Just adapt a normal mechanical, flywheel press. They work quite fast, great output.
Let’s hook it up to righteously trained AI and let them try to talk it out of guillotining them. If they manage it they just get to lose all their money instead of their head.
All the required supplies can be found at your local hardware store
We’ll burn down the Home Depots last.
It’s ok. In ten more years these CEOs will just have to work through the societal disruption of a violent revolution.
Like, how many times does history need to repeat itself for the ruling class to not understand where this leads for them? It leads to guillotines.
Literally the only thing able to stop the violence of unemployed masses is, not AI, not drones, not the police, not the military; it’s socialism.
We get their violently or non violently. But the ruling class has already decided it’s the former. It’s exciting to live during the fall of the American empire. But in 100 years; America will not exists in the form it does today. Unfortunately, history tells us the next 100 years will not be good for us.
All of these tech CEOs come from de jure democracies that are de facto oligarchies. It’s how they grew up and all they know. Working class people are Untermenschen for them.
You give a rich person an inch and they take a mile.
Deal with it you powerless peasants, or die, idgaf I’m a billionaire!
-Sundar Pichai, probably
How about we adapt by raising taxes on you assholes and funding social programs?
Here’s an idea, 90% instant wealth tax on billionaires, and use the influx of money for UBI. Then they’re free to cut all the jobs for AI.
Rinse and repeat this every year until billionaires simply… don’t exist.
I have a batter idea because too many Americans are anti tax but also hate fiat.
We erase the wealth instead. Take their investments and just delete them from financial records. It’s fiat so it’s imaginary and we can choose to stop imagining it.
Think of all the economic theories that will be tested!
No need to worry about what to do with anything collected. No corrupt middle men to skim off a price of it. Not written off, not a tax event, just poof gone.
We need a film series like The Purge but instead of the idiot masses killing each other is the working class legally hunting down the wealthiest and the winner gets to decide how to distribute their prey’s wealth. They can decide to keep it but they will become the next target.
“DON’T dream it, be it” - if you want something done, write the film yourself. seriously!
I 100% agree up until the point where my writing skill is somewhere in between a very skilled hamster and a mentally handicapped hamster.
So write about the Hamtaro purge!
Like a Robin Hood version of The Purge? In my head I see a cute fox but what I want to see is a I know what you did last summer wolf.
Streaming on Prime Video!
It’s prestige cinema. People will pay big bucks to watch the 3D version at the local theater.
Says the guy that is one of the highest on the proverbial food chain.
The dudes suit probably costs more than most Americans make in a year … the ones that haven’t lost their job to AI
