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So there’s something I need to get off my chest, and if I post it on my LinkedIn it would be career suicide at my level.

In a company, the largest line item by far is usually payroll. I have been at a number of companies that are trying to cut costs and don’t care if you come up with the correct amount via other OpEx categories, they want headcount reduced because “it’s so much”.

So along comes the promise of a computer bot that understands the normal person and also:

  • Does not require sick/vacation time
  • Does not take FMLA
  • Does not want a bonus/profit sharing/equity
  • Don’t have to pay unemployment taxes, Medicare or SSI
  • Does not require them to spend money on health insurance
  • Will not form a union
  • Wont ever file a lawsuit for any number of reasons
  • Will work 24/7

And this right there is the exact reason so many CEOs are salivating at the idea of AI. Not for worker efficiency, not for any number of “positive” benefits they may taut, but they finally have a glimpse of the chance to rid themselves of one of the largest headaches that they perceive in a company.

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[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 100 points 1 day ago (3 children)

As usual selfishness and sociopathy will cause incredible destruction...

I can guarantee not one of these assholes salivating over the prospect of eliminating all employees is even considering what happens when only ~5-10% of the population has any form of employment to pay for anything. They only care about how to pillage their own personal kingdoms.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It was the same already with Outsourcing. Same with Nature.

I suspect this is very much a Tragedy Of The Commons situation: no single one of the people overexploiting the system will by themselves destroy it and even those who are aware that such behaviour will end up screwing everybody in the Future they either think somebody else will make up for it or that when the time comes they themselves, as individuals, will be alright and screw everybody else for being suckers.

Distributed responsability, Sociopathic levels of "I'm alright Jack", people just convincing themselves that it's not happenning basically because it's their job to not believe it and plenty of those aware of all this being forced to do the same as the rest because if they don't they'll be outcompeted by the ones doing it and go bankrupt.

Tragedy Of The Commons situations are maybe the best reason for some kind of Regulator Authority overseeing things which stops individual actions that in aggregated destroy the commons, and here we are at peak Neoliberalism whose main policy push is "no regulation".

So this thing will only stop when there's a systemic collaps by which point we'll in the ruins of it all, far behind than we were when all this started.

[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

if you play the thought of absolute ruthlessness to the end, you know exactly what they would do to the now useless excess population.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh 100000%, you can even see it in the language of Reich wingers in the US. If you're unemployed/useless then die, you don't deserve assistance. I have no doubt in my mind the Musks and Bezos of the world have absolutely no issues whatsoever with letting people starve to death.

I meant more that when no one has money then who is buying their products? Even business to business enterprise eventually has a customer that is selling to the general population. If we have no money then how do they get money?

[–] dis_da_mor@anarchist.nexus 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

even if we're broke we'll still have time, so we can be slaves for whoever's the most powerful

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

I mean, have you seen some of the robot demos nowadays? They will 100% sit in their bunkers while their AI terminators get rid of the undesirables. Who needs profits when you control all the resources and have robot slaves? It’s a post scarcity future but only for the families of the elite. Everyone else gets to be dead

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think you understand their end game here

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

What do you think it is?

Assuming it's the evil kill everyone concept: Most people aren't evil for the sake of evil, but their greed has evil affects. I think they're all self interested greedy assholes that don't particularly intend on killing everyone, but they sure will be the cause of a lot of suffering in the wake of their greed.

Like I don't think the CEO of Starbucks or whatever wants everyone to die, but I do think that if possible they'd fire every single last human working for Starbucks in any capacity, other than themselves, in order to make as much money as humanly possible if AI and robotics could do the work needed.

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

They're all real into Karl Schmitt you are still understanding money as money at some point money isn't money

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Karl Schmit

Searching....

"In 1933, Schmitt joined the Nazi Party and used his legal and political theories to provide ideological justification for the regime."

Ahh... Makes sense lol

I didn't see anything when quickly glancing over his wiki about his thoughts on what money is though. He would definitely be a inspiration for the Republicans "unitary executive theory" that they're pushing for sure...

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No the money thing isn't him money is just points its tracking who gets to make decisions about what is made the shape of

I'm so done trying g to explain this to libs whose feelings depend strongly on not understanding it

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Except you literally didn't try to explain it at all, but that's fine.

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah I'm done you didn't even read his main shit