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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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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.