• Lon3star@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Exactly this… Even ones actually attributed to AI will likely be an overreach that won’t be realized until after a person’s life has been totally upended… Shit’s gonna be bleak

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      This is too dismissive.

      Industrialization and automation has already eliminated an entire class of work that was otherwise there.

      In a hunter gathered society or an early industrial society there was always work for everyone, in modern capitalist society, there quite frankly isn’t, and that leads to huge numbers of people just being cast aside.

      And AI may wipe out a huge number of the rest. I genuinely can’t possibly fathom how it will do anything but exacerbate every single one of society’s problems.

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    I find it weird how so many companies are targeting for layoffs instead of expanding the company. You get an accelerator…

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    You know, a year ago people in charge were all, like nooo we’re not going to fire people and pocket the payroll savings

    When did we cross the line where everybody stopped lying? I mean, our vaunted business leaders dropping the bullshit is welcome, even if its bad news… but the interesting bit is in the collective, unconscious decision to just own up to this as the likeliest future.

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      The Trump admin has emboldened the entire upper echelons of society to drop pretense because enough of society is stupid enough to always buy it even if its painfully obvious that they are lying. They feel untouchable with their buddies in charge.

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    Passive voice shenanigans. They expect to lay off. They’re the ones doing it.

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    Well good news then, 99% of the population is going to force these 1% CEOs to be …laid off…