forcing us all into manual, low paid labour jobs.
Maybe we should have shown some solidarity with people in those jobs and fought for them to get paid better?
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danielfgom@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Instead of using robots to replace menial jobs and help humans who have physical labour jobs, they’ve invented a tool that will get rid of all white collar jobs, forcing us all into manual, low paid labour jobs.
Taxes will fall off a cliff and life will get really bad because the state won’t have money to maintain the country. Companies making Ai content won’t be able to sell it because no one can has money to buy it. In general all product sales will fall off a cliff, except for food, and many companies will close, resulting in mass unemployment and eventually collapse of society …
Great job morons!
gapbetweenus@feddit.de 8 months ago
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
There’s always money/wealth in the economy. If the workers don’t have it, someone else does. Find where the money is, and tax it. Then redistribute.
It’s not a hard concept. It’s a question of the political will. We know what to do, but will we do it?
captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 8 months ago
We already do know where the wealth is and we aren’t taxing it. I think we know the answer to that question. Systems are only still functioning because there’s a dribble of tax revenue that still comes in. But we are already seeing schools lose funding and roads crumble as tax revenue hasn’t grown as fast as costs or populations. I don’t think it’s going to get better, because you have to be rich or have rich allies to get elected, so I don’t know how we could create different tax laws.
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Do you know why the pirates had democratic rule?
GiddyGap@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Came here to doom-scroll. I was not disappointed.
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
dont worry Bro, they’re gonna replace the low paid jobs too.
realharo@lemm.ee 8 months ago
If AI gets really good, manual labor automation won’t be far behind, as the AI itself will be applied to robotics and AI research.
danielfgom@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sounds like good motivation for the machines to kill us off and keep the resources for themselves
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 8 months ago
More like, a motivation for the wealthy who control the machines to kill us off.
AI sentience is still science fiction but AI-powered corporate exploitation is very real, right now.
realharo@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s assuming they have that goal. The goal of survival and reproduction exists because of natural selection (those that don’t have that goal simply don’t make it into the next generation, when competing against those that do).
But that doesn’t necessarily apply to AI systems. At least while humans have a say in which systems survive and get developed further, and which ones get scrapped.
butterflyattack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Happily my job is so shit and poorly paid that I don’t anticipate it ever being worth automating. Sometimes humans are just cheaper.