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The techo-optimistic people really need to answer the question on the middle classes and on the poor’s minds. How can anyone be techno-optimistic about the fut
by colesantiago 2y ago
The techo-optimistic people really need to answer the question on the middle classes and on the poor’s minds.
How can anyone be techno-optimistic about the future where AI is mass replacing their jobs to the point they cannot pay their rent?
How would anyone pay their rent or taxes when they get mass laid off by AI in this age and where job postings get less and less, where businesses push for efficiency. Here, I see businesses and startups will try to copy Elon’s style of layoffs and try to get away with it.
I don't think UBI works here either especially with rent increases, rent, childcare, taxes, etc and it sounds too unfeasible and utopian.
Also there is a narrative of “There will be new jobs created in the AI era” but I just don’t see this happening since AI will replace jobs faster than they are created. Case in point with prompt engineering.
Seems like those who are techno optimistic are the rich, investor class invested in the very things that push their narrative and where money isn’t a problem at all.
This class of people haven’t thought about this nor that they care when AI job replacement happens since they are already invested in it.