Replacing people is a good thing.
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doodledup@lemmy.world 11 months agoReplacing people is a good thing. It means less people do more work. It means progress. It means products and services will get cheaper and more available.
MangoCats@feddit.it 11 months ago
stardust@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Great for people getting fired or finding that now the jobs they used to have that were middle class are now lower class pay or obsolete. They will be so delighted at the progress despite their salaries and employment benefits and opportunities falling.
And it’s so nice that AI is most concentrated in the hands of billionaires who are oh so generous with improving living standards of the commoners. Wonderful.
doodledup@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Great for people getting fired or finding that now the jobs they used to have that were middle class are now lower class pay or obsolete. They will be so delighted at the progress despite their salaries and employment benefits and opportunities falling.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Everyone who’s suprised by that is either not educated how economy works or how societal progress works. There are always winners and losers but society makes net-positive progress as a whole.
I have no empathy for people losing their jobs. Even if I lose my job, I accept it. It’s just life. Humanity is a really big machine of many gears. Some gears replace others to make the machine run more efficient.
And it’s so nice that AI is most concentrated in the hands of billionaires who are oh so generous with improving living standards of the commoners. Wonderful.
This is just a sad excuse I’m hearing all the time. The moment society gets intense and chang is about to happen, a purpetrator needs to be found. But most people don’t realize that the people at the top change all the time when the economy changes. They die aswell. It’s a dynamic system. And there is no one purpetrator in a dynamic system. The only purpetrator is progress. And progress is like entropy. It always find its way and you cannot stop it. Those who attempt to stop it instead of adapting to it will be crushed.
demonsword@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have no empathy
for people losing their jobsFTFY
doodledup@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is collateral damage of societal progress. This is a phenomenon as old as humanity. You can’t fight it. And it has brought us to where we are now. From cavemen to space explorers.
futatorius@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah, yeah, omelettes…eggs… heard it all before.
mriormro@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Whoever the mod was that decided to delete my comment is a fool. This guy above is a Nazi apologist.
doodledup@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What makes you think that?
mriormro@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Oh hey, it’s the Nazi apologist. Big shock you don’t give a fuck about other people’s lives.
carrion0409@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Idk how these morons keep ending up here. Reddit literally caters to them now lol
stardust@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Which are separate things from whether peoples ability to financially support themselves.
People can have smartphones and tech the past didn’t have, but be increasingly worse off financially and unable to afford housing.
And you aren’t a space explorer.
doodledup@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People can have smartphones and tech the past didn’t have, but be increasingly worse off financially and unable to afford housing.
You really have no idea what life was like just two or three generations ago. At lesst you have toilet paper, water, can shower, and don’t need to starve to death when the pig in your backyard dies of some illness.
Womble@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People being economically displaced from innovation increasing productivity is good provided it happens at a reasonable place and there is a sufficient social saftey net to get those people back on their feet. Unfortunately those saftey nets dont exist everywhere and have been under attack (in the west) for the past 40 years.
OnASnowyEvening@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I trust you’ve volunteered for it to replace you then. It being so beneficial to society, and all.
And then those people no longer working… do what, exactly? Fewer well-paying jobs, same number of people, increasing costs. Math not working out here.
Oh, it has value. Just not for society (it could that’s the sad part). For very specific people though, yeah, value. Just got to step on all the little people along the way, like we’ve always done, eh?
Yeah, rather than volunteering its more likely you lack a basic characteristic of humanity some of like to refer to as “empathy” instead. And if – giving you the benefit of the doubt – you’re just a troll… well, my statement stands.
doodledup@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes. If I get replaced by something more efficient I accept that. I am no longer worth the position of my job. I will look for something else and try to find ways to apply some of my skillsets in other ways. I may do some further training and education, or just accept a lower paying job if that’s not possible.
Can you elaborate? I don’t quiet understand what you mean by that. The people who no longer work need to find something else. There will remain only a fraction that can never find another job again. And that fraction is offset by the increased productivity of society.
Can you specify “specific”? What little people? If you use very vague terminology like that you should back it up with some arguments. I personally see no reason why AI would disadvantage working people any more than the sewing machine did back in the day.
I have a feeling you’re not actually thinking this through, or at least doing it on a very emotional level. This will not help you adapt to the changing world. The very opposite actually.