Anon learns about the tendency of the rate of profit to fall
You’ll just have to sell your organs and work double shifts in the mines in order to pay for all the times the AI screws up your food order.
Slavery.
Don’t forget mass murder either direct or indirect
They didn’t think that far. They just fired everyone and replaced them with Ai.
And now companies are slowly rolling this back as the productivity gains are in general small while the cost of AI keeps going up as investor’s money is running out.
I think it’s a plot to deal with climate change and eventually they will reduce the worlds population by 99.9% leaving the rich served by robots and AI.
“Plot” is a little too high an observation of any real power, intelligence and magick.
There are adjacent and other dimensions right and here now that no one talks about it. They never spoke the language we’re talking now because they were psychic. Vampires are real, but not what’s been said. Ditto on rich because money is not real either.
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isnt that the plot of wall-e
I like to imagine there are two possible positive outcomes
- Just switch to communism or communist like
- They made such an effort to automate that now manufacturing is really cheap, and before they know it, people just buy local. Like imagine if you could run a hardware store with a metal 3d printer. Maybe you no longer need big brands
I thought Amazon but with actual workers rights would be really good. No need for wasteful markets like malls and the labor and the boredom from working at places like that. Having drones and packages from a nationalized warehouse to distribute goods
Amazon with worker rights doesn’t work as a buisness modell. Can’t have profits on selling cheap China trash if you have to pay everybody a living wage.
Capitalism is a rabid dog, that only managed to serve the middle class well in the past because it was kept muzzled and on a tight leash.
Successive, and successful attempts to ‘unleash the beast’ have left us bit, and apologies for mixing metaphors here, but there is probably no way left, to get the genie back into the bottle:
Undoing 50+ years of damage would take time, especially when faced with resistance from those that stand to benefit most from the current broken system (think the Top 1% of the 1%), and that is time that we simply do not seem to have.
Dude I’m afraid this is just going to lead to the end of the world.
For what it’s worth; the world will survive and adapt. Whether that means the extinction of humanity, is a whole separate matter altogether.
Our species entire existence is a mere blip compared to dinosaurs for an example.
Well, actually, our descendants will survive and adapt to the new Middle Ages when civilization collapses along with AI.
I know, but we did some cool things. Our advances in Math and Physics to unlock the secrets of the universe. Our engineering prowess. The Linux Kernel is a standing achievement of humanity’s ability to contribute to something greater than themselves for no real financial gain. Plus our music and our humour and our entertainment have been just fantastic.
It’d be cool if we could at least have some permanent record of that if we don’t make it, so that future aliens could know that despite us being continual fuckwits, we did do some pretty amazing things.
Yeah we were a blip. But I don’t want that blip to mean nothing.
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Well, we have the golden records on the Voyager probes, a similar one on New horizons, and our geo-stationary sats will pretty much last until the end of our solar system. So there will be some evidence of us for at least a few hundred million years or so.
That’s what universal income is for
Which no AI bro advocates for.
Actually, some of them do, so they can pay you even less!
Here’s the problem. UBI would be paid from tax. The only people that pay tax are those that would lose their jobs.
When musk says shit like we’ll live in universal rich income or whatever he called it. It’s some meme he thought was funny when full of special K.
They won’t provide the UBI there won’t be money to run a government let alone pay us all. It’s a pipe dream.
Stranger in a strange land…
What about humanity suggests that’s ever going to happen?
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Next step in the capitalism game; own the people.
Relevant Under Studio:
Bombs.
My 401k has gotten up into the 5 digit range a couple times, but emergencies have required me to to drain it. Retirement is a dream I rarely harbor.
I’m working until the day I die. My mother fancies herself retired and rots away in a house she imagines she owns, but it has been property of the bank since before I was born in the 80s. A mortgage that was essentially renting with extra steps.
I’m just whining now, so I’ll stop.
It’s topical whining though, so it’s allowed
The plan is billionaires sell to each other
Oh wow… Anon is the next Karl Marx. He independently figured out one of the contradictions of Capitalism defined by Marx. Congratulation comrade.
