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I'd prefer the reverse approach. Let's value the "regular Joe" instead of cheapening everyone.

• znjssjnsns 2mo ago
  Yes, but in practice that doesn’t happen. Again, I did not hear a loud protest against automation of all types of labor from the intelligentsia in the past. In practice automation is great, as long as it doesn’t hit “the ones that matter” (a label which they themselves assign). I find it very hard to not imagine the smallest, tiniest violin playing the saddest song for them. Again, “respect for mathematicians” and “their work”.. please. Just produce results. That’s all that ever mattered and let’s not change the rules of the game just because they don’t suit you anymore.
  • skew-aberration 2mo ago
    Protests against automation, or for the restructuring of society to accommodate automation without causing suffering of laborers, etc, is literally one of the largest and most extensively discussed topics in modern history.
• zer00eyz 2mo ago
  This is what the Ludites were trying to accomplish with an (armed) uprising. Go back 100 years and 15 percent of the population was "Farmer", and 30 percent were in some sort of "domestic" work. Most modern jobs are a product of the fact that technology continues to advance. And by all measures it does not look like "ai" is going to change that.
• rwz 2mo ago
  If everybody is "valued", nobody is. The concept of value implies exclusivity by design.