Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman

• Johanno@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ok imagine this:

  You are an construction worker. The job is hard but the pay is okay.

  Now robots replace your job slowly. They are cheaper and more accurate.

  You can now:

  1. Complain about the robots stealing your job

  2. Be happy that you don’t have to do the hard work anymore.

  Many people will go for 1. But the actual issue is that the social security net isn’t existent or so weak that no job means no food.

  That is not the fault of technology though.

  Remember that when you vote and when politicians want to cut costs by reducing payments for the unemployed.

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  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Option 2 is soulless.

    Option 3. Destroy the capitalists owned robots and bring the robots under the control of the working class.

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    • FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Option 3 still ends up with robots and no-one doing the jobs that the robots replaced.

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      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Robots aren’t the problem.

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    • Johanno@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Option 3 would be a weird way of communism. Which still enforces my point. The reason why you fear for job safety is not the fault of technology.

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      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Option 3 is also what the historical Luddites wanted. They liked technology when it benefitted them, not when it was used to exploit them.

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