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More free time for proper rest, hobby, and well-considered expression? I’m not saying Anthropic and OpenAI are going to be the ones to deliver it - but…you rea
by DANmode 2mo ago
More free time for proper rest, hobby, and well-considered expression?
I’m not saying Anthropic and OpenAI are going to be the ones to deliver it - but…you really don’t see the ubiquitous need for these?
- apple4ever 2mo agoHow will we be able to have those when we have no job and no home and no money?
- DANmode 2mo agoAgain, this isn’t my perspective, just again parroting what’s being asked for: if there’s less work to be done for everyone to have what they need, that would be considered a benefit by governed society, and universal basic income will likely be rolled out.
- palmotea 2mo ago> if there’s less work to be done for everyone to have what they need, that would be considered a benefit by governed society Not necessarily. It's not going to be evenly distributed. It's not like today, but everyone works 4 hours a week. Some dudes will work 80, others won't work at all. That situation is what's most adventitious to shareholders. > and universal basic income will likely be rolled out. If UBI even happens, it's going to enable a poverty-level existence. Thing of all the things you enjoy doing, that you wouldn't be able to afford if you were in poverty. That's UBI life.
- Sabinus 2mo ago>If UBI even happens, it's going to enable a poverty-level existence. Why? Remember all the work that's being done now would still be being done by robots. There should be more surpluses not less.
- owebmaster 2mo agoRobots do most of the work of producing RAM and we got a shortage, not surplus.
- alt227 2mo agoWe had a surplus before a new industry was invented which needed orders of magnitude more.
- red-iron-pine 2mo agowhy likely? the guys who have all of the money are trying their hardest to crush it literally the ones related to this very site
- DANmode 2mo agoBecause the rich can only wear so many pairs of shoes, and buy so many chain-restaurant pizzas. That’s the shortest I can make it. Pandemic workplace closures exposed a lot of that.
- quantified 2mo agoAin't going to happen and you know it.
- DANmode 2mo agoNot saying it will - just that that’s how they’re selling the shares and taking on the giant investments. Blinding need. We don’t have time for each other like we used to.
- DANmode 2mo ago“Not with that attitude!”
- preg_match 2mo agoIt might happen but it certainly won’t be instant. It will take decades, and in the meantime what happens? Are those people just unbelievably fucked? Our current economic systems literally cannot handle this. The underpinning of all of capitalism is that you work, and you consume. If even one of those assumptions is no longer true, nothing works. And when I mean nothing, I mean nothing. Money doesn’t work, rent doesn’t work, debt doesn’t work, labor doesn’t work, production doesn’t work. It would have to be a quick de-industrialization unless we have a plan. No more monkey-patching with social programs, this is an entire paradigm shift.
- digitaltrees 2mo agoThe data is already in, AI makes employer expectations increase not decrease, and employees report working more hours not less.