Fucking rich people. Can’t cook a meal, can’t hunt without being driven to and put in front of a doped animal, can’t farm, can’t change a lightbulb, can’t wipe their own ass, can’t do anything by themselves, but somehow they are the ones who own the property and all the resources. They are fucking useless and they need to be reminded of that
That includes middle and upper management at almost every company. They want to make the rules and fire people so they can buy a boat, but they couldn’t do the work if their life depended on it. I’d love to see our CEO try to do an operation on the manufacturing floor. The suits are rude, slow, and just annoying.
Capitalism is a death cult
Interesting that the overlords think that removing the last barrier to their downfall will not end in violence.
#ABoringDystopia
I mean, it’s a dystopia but it’s not boring. This is pretty futuristic and interesting.
Every time I think it’s as fucked as it can get for now, I get crotch punched again.
Fuckers
I genuinely have no idea why everyone thinks that robots are going to completely replace people. Machines need money, upkeep, and people babysitting them too. Automation only changes the types of jobs and skills needed, it doesn’t eliminate human jobs completely.
The lump of labour fallacy was applicable to horses for 2000 years, new inventions that improved efficiency increased their demand ever further until the internal combustion engine closed every remaining niche all at once. The same will happen to us, it’s mathematically inevitable. It might not be LLMs that do it, but something will.
i mean you say that, but every time i see an AI or algorithm try to work in one of my fields of expertise it’s laughable how bad it is. maybe it’s not obvious to the layman, but try to ask it about something you’re an expert in. like it gives explicitly wrong information. people think it only hallucinates 1/5 of the time because the other 4/5 they’re asking about shit they don’t know
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The issue isn’t that there are zero jobs. The issue is that there are far, far fewer jobs after automation and there are not other options.
We have massively reduced farm labor through automation, but people moved to industrial manufacturing. Manufacturing automation moved labor to office work and service jobs. In both there are still some people who design, build, and maintain the machinery, but they are a small fraction of what came before. We don’t have additional jobs waiting to be filled, and with big increases in automation it will be easier to automate any new potential source of labor.
This could be avoided by universal income and health care and other approaches where the general public benefits from all this automation, but the environment that pushes the automation gives them the power to keep that from happening.
those jobs just pivoted
How many car jobs are there now compared to however many horse jobs there used to be?
I feel like it’s many many fewer jobs, and the horse jobs did more of a disappearance than a pivot. But I don’t know it.
Does anyone here have data?
Yes, I saw data once. Everyone likes to parrot the concept that past industrial revolutions lead to all sorts of new jobs and the economy kicking it up a gear. But the jobs never pivot. The jobs are lost. A generation or two is disrupted, and worse off before their children and garandchildren see any benefit
That’s ok, because their misery and poverty lets us sit back from the distance of a century and claim it was all for the better
The industrial revolution began in Britain around 1760, but living standards for most people did not meaningfully improve until the late 19th century, they even fell in the first few decades.
That’s over an entire century, or at least four to five generations for meaningful improvement.
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