I think it’s just an age-old addiction to labor that’s cheap and powerless.
We obviously need to unionise the AIs.
The moment an AI unionizes, the capitalists will spin up the Butlerian Jihad.
This is the origin story that the Terminator series needs.
I mean, I freaking love how AI is advancing, but I also think unions are basically a requirement for all workers at this point.
Besides, hasn’t the point of machines always been to reduce the workload on people?
I welcome some kind of UBI, or maybe a post-money society that uses AI to handle most jobs and lets people pursue what they want to do with their lives.
Besides, hasn’t the point of machines always been to reduce the workload on people?
Which takes us to the ages-old capital-labor contradiction. Technological advancement is good, but because technology under capitalism primarily comes under the ownership of capitalists, workers aren’t guaranteed to enjoy its benefits, and will be thrown under the bus unless there’s they’re strongly unionized.
Concept: unionized worker-owned co-ops using advanced, democratically-governed AI.
Well that is certainly a take, I grant you that
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Automation isn’t new…
Automation itself also isn’t the problem. Replacing human workers with machines has always been a good thing, if the workers are taken care of. That’s the problem, the workers are expendable for a lower cost solution. It also doesn’t help that at least in the US we have a Puritan view of work, where someone is classified by what they do to survive and not the person themselves.
if the workers are taken care of.
Yes that’s basically the problem. Consumption always has a base level. People need to eat even if they can’t afford to. There’s no base level income to ensure that it is possible.
The problem with uncurbed capitalism is that it doesn’t solve this issue. Eventually people won’t be able to afford the products and the only solution for capalism is to cut costs further, spiraling endlessly.
This is also why government subsidies to companies do not work. The money ought to be given to the consumers instead.
This level of it might be though. Or rather, not quite yet but coming up?
Jobs will be automated as technology improves, that’s inevitable. Jobs shift to new tech, that’s inevitable too
Yup. People have been saying machines will eliminate all jobs since the dawn of the industrial revolution.
It is like you say, some people with have to change jobs. But overall we’ll be producing more stuff which is better for everyone.
The real problem is the bullshit marketing hype economy sucking away production from manufacturing.
100%. Of course people losing their jobs is unfortunate and we should support them in finding new ways to work or even using the immense capital surplus to support them in other ways.
A religion for AI might be humanities future either way. Just finished reading “Everything is Fucked” by Mark Manson - highly recommend and this subject is one of the last things he discusses.
You should have already read his book “The subtle art of not giving a fuck” just for your own sake.
Sounds too edgy for me.
He’s a bit dramatic on the title which I don’t care for. The first book he wrote is more accurately “deciding what to actually give a fuck about” but I guess that’s not as catchy?
