3 ms·
If labor cost is close to $0, even more businesses that weren’t viable before would become viable. Do you not see the logic?
by aurareturn 10mo ago
If labor cost is close to $0, even more businesses that weren’t viable before would become viable.
Do you not see the logic?
- squeefers 10mo agoai is bad because it's automated his job. luddites in tech. a real contradiction
- DangitBobby 10mo agoNot really a contradiction, since the entire point of jobs and the economy at all is to serve the specific needs of humanity and not to maximize paper clip production. If we should be learning anything from the modern era it's something that should have always been obvious: the Luddites were not the bad guys. The truth is you've fallen for centuries old propaganda. Hopefully someday you'll evolve into someone who doesn't carry water for paperclip maximizers.
- jason_oster 10mo agoLuddites are a consistent problem regardless of domain. Planck's principle was born in physics.
- menaerus 10mo agoDemand is the driver not only the cost.
- aurareturn 10mo agoNot true. Sell a $0.50 coffee next to Starbucks with the same quality and it will drive demand. Lower prices drive demand.
- menaerus 10mo agoSo, more people will start drinking coffee all together or same amount of people will be redistributed across Starbucks and my new fancy espresso bar?
- aurareturn 10mo agoMore people will drink coffee if it’s cheaper and some people from Starbucks will order from you now. It’s not controversial economics that lower prices drive more demand.
- menaerus 10mo agoEconomics 101, right? Since developing software, writing the technical documentation, and exercising QA became all of the sudden 1000x cheaper than it was a year ago, how come we don't see the substantial increase in demand of software/QA/doc engineers then? I see the opposite happening right now, e.g. many people losing their jobs to $30/month AI model.