Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant
BillyClark@piefed.social 2 days ago
Assume for a moment that AI really was taking all of these types of jobs, which by the way, almost certainly includes CEOs. It would only be a matter of time before robots take those other jobs he’s talking about.
A normal human of normal intelligence would see that and conclude that people simply wouldn’t have to work anymore. And that therefore, everyone should have their basic necessities taken care of by their governments.
People would be free to do whatever they want, whether it be “humanities” work or creating things or whatever. We’re no longer constrained by the fact that our lives depend on our usefulness in jobs to the ruling class.
Only a member of that ruling class would see themselves as indispensable and others as slave labor.
Asafum@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The problem is ownership.
These scumbags own all the means to produce and will demand compensation for their products. The one thing I don’t understand is if these fucks remove all the workers then who has money to buy their products? There isn’t an infinite demand for electricians, plumbers, carpenters etc etc… so there are going to be a lot of people without the means to earn a living.
I think the ownership class is thinking of revising “let them eat cake” into “let them eat dirt. We have no need for them.”
BillyClark@piefed.social 2 days ago
Whatever bad shit I want to say about Henry Ford, at least he understood the basic idea that people could only spend the amount of money that they have or make. That’s one of the things he’s famous for is that his factory workers could buy their own Model Ts.
We now live in a stupid reality where the world is controlled by rich people who see others as slaves and who are wanting to keep slave labor in perpetuity, even when the labor doesn’t need to exist.
ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
There goal is to push people back to serfdom. They don’t care if the common man lives in a house or a shack. They don’t care if they can afford a car or have to walk. Their goal is to amass enough wealth (not just money), so they can bribe people to do what they want because they’ll be desperate. Robots, AI and Automation will cover the rest of it. They just need to keep a much smaller group happy who would become slightly better but still fearing they could lose everything.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
They also don’t care if we starve to death. That’s just thinning the herd as far as they’re concerned.
Don’t like being livestock? Better get organized and do something about that.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
In the budding K-Economy, that seems to be the case. The objectively wealthy now make up something like 60% of consumer spending. It seems to be reaching the point that the majority of people can’t make enough money to even be considered vital to the economy.
dandylion@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
there is no owner OR the only owner of anything would be the creator, unless the owned is someone with their own will.
interesting to translate this ownership topic to anything - earth, space, buildings, art, AI
dandylion@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
their “ownership” is the lie we collectively believe, I hate this