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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

Because China’s government knows the last thing it needs is a bunch of unemployed people.

It’s so weird how single-party rule can sometimes be more responsive to the people. Because there’s no illusion: if the people get unhappy enough, CCP is gone.

Meanwhile the US we live with these bizarre illusions about how the people are truly in power, while our government is driven into the ground by plutocrats and their pet priests.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

China definitely doesn't want that many workers suddenly disenfranchised and angry

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Why does the Chinese government worry about sudden mass unemployment in a way Western governments do not?

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

because there’s billions of workers to riot as compared to say a few hundred million in the US.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

They're walking a thin line between restrictive policies and QoL guarantees.

It's hard to explain as a non-native English speaker but they basically guarantee an acceptable way of living with mobility, housing, jobs and other stuff in exchange for control, surveillance and censorship.

In Western government the equation looks different, at least for now.

[–] Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml 12 points 15 hours ago

Naturally? God forbid a country considers the welfare of its workers.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago

Ding ding ding

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 54 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I like this, and so should anyone who wants to see China on an ethical gradient, not black or white. This is unironically one of the advantages of centralized, authoritarian and undemocratic government: you can make decisions like this, just like that. And sometimes these decisions are good, far-sighted.

Now let's not forget about the downsides of China's totalitarianism.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This is unironically one of the advantages of centralized, authoritarian and undemocratic government

Policy that benefits the plurality at the demands of the working class are centralized, authoritarian, and undemocratic?

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Policies that are implemented through centralized, authoritarian, and undemocratic means can benefit the plurality, and can be more easily implemented when desired by the ruling class.

This is a very different claim from the one you’re trying to see.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago

US government is gonna use this to talk about how anti ai movements are "cawmmunist"

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The legal reasoning cuts through corporate justifications—AI implementation is a voluntary business decision, not an unforeseeable catastrophe.

It makes sense. Nobody is ready to figure out what to do with those workers cause the chuds of the world are afraid of what happens when you give people UBI (they want to lord over other people through wealth and inequality)

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[–] Karmanopoly@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Nobody's considered who is gonna buy all the stuff when all the employees are laid off

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The future is two corporations, eternally B2Bing back and forth across the desiccated husk of the Earth. A perfect, all-encompassing synergy.

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Alien earth kinda covers this utopia (sarcasm) already. Few huge corporations run earth as a corporatocracy.

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[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This kicks the can down the road a bit, but I don’t see how this is cause for celebration. Businesses will just open a new company and avoid having that company hiring humans to escape labor laws that relate to job elimination. This can all likely be escaped with a little legal hopscotch.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's what regulation is.

Making things inconvenient over and over again so worse things don't happen, or take significantly longer and require more concerted effort to happen. It's a good thing. We should make it harder for bad actors to do shitty things.

Pretending something is pointless because it may not be 100% effective is absurd.

[–] TerdFerguson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Pretending something is pointless because it may not be 100% effective is absurd.

I feel like this point needs to be made more and more lately. Perfect is the enemy of better.

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Eating is also just kicking the can down the road, you'll just get hungry again later.

I never understood this kind of argument. Everything is just kicking the can down the road, that doesn't make it not worthwhile.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Honestly I think its China just protecting its economy, western businesses are already finding that AI now costs more than just hiring humans and gives a worse output, the chinese government is just preventing their own economy from falling into the same trap.

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