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MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Here’s why: AI is reshaping the labor market. Official employment numbers might look steady, but anecdotally, the job market feels different, especially for early-career workers. It’s shifting from a buyer’s market to a seller’s market, and employers are noticing.
Is… Is this written as if employers are the ones selling? As if they’re the one’s “producing” jobs for people to “buy”?
1984@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Well yeah. Companies are creating jobs that consumers needs to “buy” (with their life/time/skills) so they can pay their bills.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Except that companies are the one’s literally purchasing labor.
Framing it the other way around paints a world where a corporation is doing individual humans a favor merely by existing. When in reality, it is being enabled by workers providing their labor. At least for now.
It’s a trade. Where one side is providing the literal time people have on this earth, and the other is a corporation that produces whatever it produces. Or consumes, even.
The latter should literally never be one with an advantageous position. It simply can’t be worth more than the actual lives of people.
And before you go “sure it can be” I’m not talking about how capitalism turns everything into market-defined value.