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AI Is Driving More Layoffs Than Companies Want to Admit (www.bloomberg.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Espiritdescali to c/futurology

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Jobs" is a useless metric. What you should be looking at is GDP and the value of the dollar.

Honestly if your job can be automated by a computer your time working it is numbered. It was the same thing with machines that could lay rail road tracks.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It was the same thing with machines that could lay rail road tracks.

There wasn't a plan there either, and that's how we got shantytowns. Caping for the capitalists' bad planning is not making you out to be "the adult in the room". I don't give a shit about GDP, that shit's just a number that as evidenced by the "soaring economy yet ain't no one want to hire" environment the current jobs market is, doesn't affect my material conditions one goddamn whit.

I give a shit about my peers and neighbors not winding up on the streets because they can no longer afford their homes after some shitbag executive decided "yeah, a glorified chatbot can do this job and fifteen thousand others".