Inching closer to technological feudalism every day. And don't get me wrong, I'm all for AI, but this thing that could easily be used ti cut working hours will be used to enrich the technological powerhouses that make the US an oligarchy
Inching closer to technological feudalism every day. And don't get me wrong, I'm all for AI, but this thing that could easily be used ti cut working hours will be used to enrich the technological powerhouses that make the US an oligarchy
Yeah I'm skeptical that this is gonna replace people working at the JavaScript factory - the trick there is gonna be making those jobs increasingly more precarious and lower-paid rather than replacing them.
This might be worse somehow. I genuinely don't know how capitalism will sustain itself in the next 40 years without an extremely robust social safety net. And all those conversations have been dead in the water since Reagan's presidency
It's one of the reasons I'm fully for UBI (just not Yang's shitty version). Tech and AI don't need to replace individual workers, they just need to lower the ceiling of expertise and increase productivity enough that one worker gets saddled with the work of multiple others. We see it after every recession where suddenly companies have found that actually they were getting by just fine without all those other workers because poor Joe Schmo and a couple of productivity suites are perfectly "capable" of picking up the slack for the rest of his missing department.