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Whether or not you are correct about the concrete details here, it is laughable for regular people[1] to bicker about whose job will be replaced first when the
by keybored 1y ago
Whether or not you are correct about the concrete details here, it is laughable for regular people[1] to bicker about whose job will be replaced first when the people who profit from that are just sitting on their ass, ready to get labor for nothing instead of relatively little.
[1] Although I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the people who argue about this topic online are already independently wealthy
- simianwords 1y agoThe people who profit from it are very much not sitting on their ass. It is easy to dismiss them as a way to reinstate your ideology but the reality is they too are working hard because it is a volatile time for them as well. They have to keep up and employ the new technology appropriately or they will lose to their competition.
- keybored 1y agoYou’re right. They are working in the sense that they are competing with others to come out as the top parasites. Not to mention that working against laborers takes effort as well. But they are not working in the sense that people bicker about AI “taking jobs”; providing useful labor.
- simianwords 1y agoCompeting against others to come out at the top _is_ useful labor. The best one wins usually and as a consumer you want the best products to come on top.
- keybored 1y agoMaybe this is very Vulgar Marxist but that seems a bit like crediting gangsters competing to shake down construction businesses for building bridges.
- simianwords 1y agoThat’s not the case at all. Competition is integral to the system working. We have many laws to protect the market so that competition is viable like anti trust etc. Competition is why you have good products. Can you explain to me what incentivizes Apple to make functional and impressive iPhones instead of selling us barely working phones without cameras?
- keybored 1y ago1st paragraph: I believe that you believe that. 2nd: If I think capitalists are parasites, why would I attribute any good that Apple makes to them? Clearly it is the people doing real work who is to praise for that. They make up the bulk of that organism.