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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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[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The techbro philosophy of "move fast and break things" is going to impoverish so many more people than it needed to. Over glorified chatbot software. I pray this nation unravels itself before that day comes, because we know there will never be a UBI implemented. The powers that be would never allow it, no matter how many actually-human jobs AI consumes. That "day where no one will need a job" will only come in the form of "you will never make money again".

I paid to study technology and land a career in that field; not 'waste my money and end up forced back into either retail or food service anyfuckingway'. I'd sooner neck myself in the street than go back to that.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 8 months ago

I paid to study technology and land a career in that field; not 'waste my money and end up forced back into either retail or food service anyfuckingway'. I'd sooner neck myself in the street than go back to that.

And I paid to study chemistry just to have the rug pulled and nearly all jobs that I qualified for off-shored, having to compete with PhDs just for entry-level jobs. My first career was over before I got a chance to start it. Fortunately, it was a very technical field of study and I was able to leverage it to "fall back" into the tech industry.

If shit happens, don't off yourself. There's always hope. "The world isn't fair", is a problem statement, not a justification. And we're engineers. You've got this shit.

[–] Espiritdescali 4 points 8 months ago

https://archive.is/QBPfv

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

It also is creating new jobs. This is the same argument people used against electricity and mass production

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

Then where are those new jobs? Where they at tho? Why do unemployment numbers keep going up after these AI-borne layoffs? Or, lemme guess, we started slashing actual human positions for Akinator and Cleverbot implementations but never had the fix action for lost human jobs even drafted up, let alone implemented, didn't we?

[–] 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".