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Yes, well, many young programmers today are finding it increasingly difficult to find a good job out of school, what with all the new AI tools and general diffu
by DiscourseFan 3y ago
Yes, well, many young programmers today are finding it increasingly difficult to find a good job out of school, what with all the new AI tools and general diffusion of the skill across the global population.
The skills required to be a "shelf stacker" are generally taught in public schools. What did you think would happen when they started teaching all these kids to program as well? There is a good reason why these giant tech companies kept lobbying for, and creating school programs centered around code-education, and I hope you realize it wasn't purely philanthropic.
- chiefalchemist 3y agoExactly. It's an economic *system*. Change X and there is impact not only on W and Y but perhaps also V and Z. So to say, "Look! We raised the min wage and people earned more money. That's the bottomline", is naive at best. Furthermore (re: California), increasing the min wage is not a fix for the housing supply and associated failed policies.
- DiscourseFan 3y agoMarx always emphasised the general law of capitalist accumulation: no matter what temporary victories a local population might win (wage increases, stable housing, free education and healthcare, etc.), as long as Capital continues to dominate the social world, people will always be enslaved to the conditions of the market, and every effort will be made to extract as much surplus value as possible, since its what produces the most productivity and profit in the capitalist system.