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Never. 100 years of unparalleled technological progress and productivity gains have lead to a society where 96.3% of the american labor pool is forced to work.
by asdff 3y ago
Never. 100 years of unparalleled technological progress and productivity gains have lead to a society where 96.3% of the american labor pool is forced to work. Why should AI be any different than any of the "job saving" inventions that came before?
- weberer 3y agoBecause you don't have to pay AI.
- JeremyNT 3y agoIn the AI utopia, "knowledge work" is delegated to computers, and the humans who used to do productive and rewarding things will simply do bullshit jobs [0] instead. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_job https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_job
- asdff 3y agoEven already today, a lot of knowledge work jobs have a lot of overlap with the bullshit working with excel sort of office jobs especially when you consider what you are actually doing day to day and week to week.
- pixl97 3y agoAh yes, the more better technology makes more, better jobs for horses argument.
- asdff 3y agoI must have forgotten about the lines of people on every block looking for work as a stable hand