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AI is the latest gimmick to avoid paying people a fair share of the profits. Hoarding profits is the only way anyone can afford to make $100 million before age 30 or be a billionaire by age 40. There is no other way to do it.
Pre-1860s: Have slaves do the work, to avoid paying fair wages
1860s-1920s: Have Chinese and low-wage immigrants do the work, to avoid paying fair wages
1930s: Plenty of unemployed, so no need to pay fair wages
1940s: War
1945-1960s: Lets try paying fair wages
1970s-early 2020s: That sucked! Offshore to Asia and Latin America and hire low wage foreigners, to avoid paying fair wages.
mid-2020s: Replace the humans with AI, to avoid paying fair wages
Yup. It's why I don't hate AI itself, but the people behind creating and pushing it. The way to get tons of funding for AI was to push it on the world as the new way to avoid paying employees fairly or at all. It's just more money, power, and control for the few. Mostly the same few who already have lots of those things.
I understand that AI isn't human, but hating it seems sort of like hating a slave for taking your job instead of hating the slave owner or hating a knife for stabbing you instead of the guy holding the less stabby end of it.
1940s to 1960s. They weren’t paying fair wages out of the goodness of their hearts.
So many people died in the war that they didn’t have a big pool of desperate workers. So the workers had more leverage. I.e. if you don’t hire someone then there’s no one else to do it.
But population has exploded again, and now there are more desperate people who are willing to undercut each other.
The black plague reduced the work force so much that it is credited with helping create the middle class.