Comment on Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 10 months agoWe know we cannot trust the free market and business in general to be ethical about this.
Disagree to that.
I say, you can trust the markets and businesses to always act as unethical as possible. And with ‘possible’ I mean a lot worse than legally possible.
r00ty@kbin.life 10 months ago
I don't really see organisations as unethical. They usually don't act ethically, but that's not because as a whole they're unethical.
I see them more like insects. They generally react to stimuli and just do the same as the other insects/organisations, things that have been proven to work. They're also generally driven by one basic instinct, to make more money, and they do it at any cost. The drones (employees) are entirely disposable in this endeavour and if they can entirely remove them from the equation they will do it in a heartbeat.
Even those that perhaps do have some form of ethical streak and don't think they should dump all their employees for AI/robots? Well, good for them, but they'll be driven out of business by those that do.
When you think of a business or other organisation in this way, a lot of the weird things they do start to make a lot of sense.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That doesn’t seem unethical to you??
‘At any cost’ usually means: by forgetting all kinds of laws and all kinds of ethics as well.
r00ty@kbin.life 10 months ago
My point is, you don't see insects as ethical or unethical. I see organisations the same way. They're acting on instinct, and are just aiming to do what they exist for. Make money. Ethics don't even come into it. Now, peering outside in, you can try to cast society's ethical views on organisations. But, they generally don't even consider them (until they are forced to by local legislation, or that the route to making more money, or indeed not less money is to be seen to be ethical).
This is why there's more often than not a certain kind of person drawn to leadership positions.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You are saying that organisations don’t need any ethics at all, but at the same time you refuse to call this “unethical”.
For me this the point of EOD.