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It's a little wrong. It's probably going to replace middle class jobs more than the jobs of the poor.
by CobrastanJorji 7mo ago
It's a little wrong. It's probably going to replace middle class jobs more than the jobs of the poor.
- sam_lowry_ 7mo agoPoor tend to think of themselves as middle-class.
- metalliqaz 7mo agoso do the rich note I used "rich" there, not "wealthy"
- soperj 7mo agoThe middle class is poor now.
- nickvec 7mo agoYep. The middle class is quickly disappearing.
- linkregister 7mo agoFor an environmentmaxxer, eliminating upper-middle class jobs is extremely effective, as this group consumes the lion's share of resources and bears the greatest impact on carbon emissions. Remember that the majority of industry is upstream of consumption. Not endorsing this world view, just noting that the wealthiest 1% of people in the world (encompasses most US citizens) have an enormously outsized impact on climate.
- CobrastanJorji 7mo agoThe "upper middle class" is not strictly defined, but they are pretty clearly the folks below the wealthiest 1%. You can't be in the middle without something on either side. They certain consume far more than the poor, on account of having resources, but they also consume far less than the wealthiest 1%.
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- linkregister 7mo agoYou are almost certainly in the global 1% of the wealthy [1]. Compared to developing nations' residents, we have an order of magnitude greater impact on the environment. 1. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17512040 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17512040
- Legend2440 7mo ago>Remember that the majority of industry is upstream of consumption. People forget this. Oil companies may have dug up the oil, but they did so because we paid them to, so we could use the energy for good and useful things. Climate change isn't 'evil billionaire companies are ruining the world', it's 'these things we did to improve our lives turn out to have side effects'.
- sam_lowry_ 7mo agoThe discussion is about the current generation of LLMs. It's not yet clear whether side-effects outweigh the advantages. OTOH, I can already argue with numbers at hand that Bitcoin made the world poorer and worse off.