And the tragedy of the whole situation is that they can‘t win because if every worker is replaced by an algorithm or a robot then who‘s going to buy your products? Nobody has money because nobody has a job. And so the economy will shift to producing war machines that fight each other for territory to build more war machine factories until you can’t expand anymore for one reason or another. Then the entire system will collapse like the Roman Empire and we start from scratch.
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks agoI mean it’s pretty clear they’re desperate to cut human workers out of the picture so they don’t have to pay employees that need things like emotional support, food, and sleep.
They want a workslave that never demands better conditions, that’s it. That’s the play. Period.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
howrar@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Why would you need anyone to buy your products when you can just enjoy them yourself?
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because there’s always a bigger fish out there to get you. Or that’s what trillionaires will tell themselves when they wage a robotic war. This system isn’t made to last the way it’s progressing right now.
TommySoda@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If this is their way of making AI, with brute forcing the technology without innovation, AI will probably cost more for these companies to maintain infrastructure than just hiring people. These companies are already not making a lot of money for how much they cost to maintain. And unless they charge companies millions of dollars just to be able to use their services they will never make a profit. And since companies are trying to use AI to replace the millions they spend on employees it seems kinda pointless if they aren’t willing to prioritize efficiency.
It’s basically the same argument they have with people. They don’t wanna treat people like actual humans because it costs too much, yet letting them love happy lives makes them more efficient workers. Whereas now they don’t want to spend money to make AI more efficient, yet increasing efficiency would make them more less expensive to run. It’s the never ending cycle of cutting corners only to eventually make less money than you would have if you did things the right way.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Absolutely. It’s maddening that I’ve gone from “maybe we should make society better somewhat” in my twenties to “if we’re gonna do capitalism, can we do it how it actually works instead of doing it stupid?” in my forties.
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
The oligarchs running these companies have suffered a psychotic break. What the cause exactly is I don’t know, but the game theyre playing is a lot less about profits now. They care about control and power over people.
I theorize it has to do with desperation over what they see as an inevitable collapse of the United States and they are hedging their bets on holding onto the reigns of power for as long as possible until they can fuck off to their respective bunkers while the rest of humanity eats itself.
Then, when things settle they can peak their heads out of their hidie holes and start their new Utopian civilization or whatever.
Whatever’s going on, profits are not the focus right now. They are grasping at ways to control the masses…and failing pretty miserably I might add…though something tells me that scarcely matters to them.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Which they are intentionally trying to cause, rather that deal with their addiction to wealth and power.