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This doesnt stop until there are no more billionaires.
imagine wrecking your life working to advance a thing for which the ultimate end goal is to replace you entirely
I don't have to imagine :(
imagine wrecking your life working to advance a thing for which the ultimate end goal is to replace you entirely
That isn't new with AI. Non-AI Automation has been the goal (and achievement) of business for decades.
Automation is great , everything should be automated as much as possible.
IF everyone benefits from it in the form of higher wages/less working hours due to the higher productivity.
IF everyone benefits from it in the form of higher wages/less working hours due to the higher productivity.
I know this is a common philosophical statement, but I haven't yet seen a great implementation of it in reality. I'm interested if your approach is viable.
Scenario:
Lets say we have a 25 year old worker named Jim. Jim was hired and his job for 1 year was to log into a system, look up specific values, and populate these values into fields in an Excel spreadsheet. At the beginning of the second year, a small Bash script (computer code) was written by an engineer and set to run on a repeating daily schedule that did all of the lookups and sheet population that was Jim's entire job. The entirely of Jim's job has been replaced by automation.
Result:
Jim no longer has any work to do for the organization. There aren't any other open positions at the company for Jim (or if there are Jim is not even remotely qualified to do those other jobs).
UBI is the obvious solution to this and study after srudy has proven its efficacy.
I'm a proponent of UBI, but that has nothing to do with the "IF everyone benefits from it in the form of higher wages/less working hours due to the higher productivity" philosophy OP posted though.
With UBI, Jim would be getting basic income (like everyone else) irrespective if he ever had the job in the example or not, and irrespective if the automation occurred or not.
Automation, in the case of UBI, would mean that the productivity gain would translate into less hour worked, with a minimum guaranteed revenue every month/year.
The reality is that automation efficiency is going straight into capitalists pockets. And people having a bigger workload for the same amount of money as before.
Without a societal shift, automation is not for the benefits of the general populace.
“Learn to work like this now or you will be left behind.” The “experts” say.
well there goes my chances of landing a job. I had one thing mention a flexible work schedule and I asked them about it like can I make my own hours or shifts or decide how many hours to work or what. Did not hear back. Don't know if they don't like my questions or if they would have blown me off either way.
Flexible work schedule == working after hours, and on weekends. Always.
if it does they did not reply to explain that. I see flexible work sechedule and I assume they are listing a perk.
Interviewed at a place. Asked how many hours for a normal work week in engineering. They casually say 45-50. Mentally shut that door so damn fast.
Honestly I assume 50 if it pays well. Im increasingly seeing where I think they want to float on the idea the experience will lead to a better job with the good pay but want all that. And they are looking for experience that someone would have had to be in the field at least 10 years to get so the person should not need the exp to get better pay. If the corps want to make the recruitment process a sodomy contest then imma out.
I thought the point was to have AI do everything... if you're requiring 12 hour days, doesn't that just mean the AI id failing?
Turns out that the folks who came up with "Move Fast. Break Things." as a business stategy aren't very good at business stategizing.
Remember kids, this is why you never EVER listen to techbros about how to structure society.
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XKCD 2030
MAGA is going to replace as many jobs as they can with AI and Robotics. Then MAGA will deal with the 50% unemployment rate by imprisoning people without jobs, are homeless, have too much debt, aren't otherwise employable, will go to work camps, where they will be leased out as slaves to corporations, causing another wave of job losses, and a 75% unemployment rate. And it's all going to happen much faster than anyone believes.
Better start to figure out your own business now, so it can be up and running when 90% of traditional employment is replaced by AI, Robotics, and Slaves.
996 is the most inhuman idea. What is the point?
To prop up the system that is needed to prop up the system.
Why would any human being consent to this being their life?
You have already answered yourself
Capitalism is a cancerous disease which will result in our self-annihilation if it isn’t stopped.