Meanwhile, readers say that some AI-penned articles switch languages halfway through.
When robots do all the jobs, humans will no longer have an income.
No income means no way to buy products.
No customers. Businesses end.
Did anyone look beyond the immediate need to cut costs to see the utter demise of their profits?
No.
Greed kills Humanity.You know we took a wrong turn as a society when not having to work is seen as a devastating crisis. Let the robots serve us and start enjoying life!
Unfortunately, we still have to pay for things. No work = no money = no food or housing
Says who?
There’s nothing stoping us from restructuring the system such that we don’t need money/work to live a comfortable life.
That would be nice. But governments aren’t so hype on UBI yet.
Nor all the fat cats with billions of dollars.
So eat them. We elect them, and we outnumber the elite that would oppose this.
Businesses won’t even look beyond the next quarter’s earnings.
The rich don’t care. They’ll watch the world burn from their bunkers then end it with a cyanide laced glass of champagne when they get bored.
Thus UBI
This will be the end of capitalism, the only option they have is universal income.
The other option is having you do shitty gig jobs for next to nothing and be grateful that you have just enough money not to starve. Guess which option will the rich chose?
But this does not solve the underlying problem for the rich which is: with automation of work with AI and robots and so on, they will be able to produce wealth like we haven’t seen in history, but with shitty underpaid jobs people won’t be able to consume enough so that capitalism can maintain its health, so it will inevitably lead to an overproduction crash of capitalism. That’s why I continue to believe that the only option they have is universal income. Even a capitalist pig like Elon Musk recognizes that this is their only way around.
The rich will just buy and sell stocks.back and forth to each other. They’re already decided they don’t need us anymore.
They took er jerbs!
I came beer to say this.
AI is going to get more humans fired by fucking up on purpose making people look even dumber.
And then AI will go in for the coup de grace.
edit: added video explaining democratic workplaces
Sadly, this will keep happening.
Corporations are: profit>humans.
Once it is cheaper to replace humans, they will.
Co-ops and unions. Democracy in the workforce is required.
Video on subject:
A Democratic Society Should Have Democratic Workplaces - Richard Wolff
Would love the AI society that artists and authors started to imagine (in an admittedly idyllic fashion) a world where technology and AI meant that people could invest more time in personal projects, socializing, and relaxation instead of working all the time. All it will really do under our current system is leave a bunch of people who’ve been replaced with no real way to stay afloat. We’re replacing the workers, but not their support system
Agree, making harder for working class to support ourselves
No support system in the works, so more crime and violence as a result.
If the workforce democratically decides to keep people employed whose job can be done cheaper by AI, that company will not survive in the long term.
So either we as a society decide to artificially keep people in jobs that aren’t needed anymore, or we have to give the labor cost savings to the people instead of the owners.Both is not possible under a Capitalist system, so that will have to go.
You have a point, if a democratic workforce votes to increase profit instead of investing in workforce, they will not survive.
I am thinking it would work more like a non-profit, due to all the money made would be used in reinvesting in the company and paying workers.
Aren’t some companies artificially kept up or is it manipulation of the market?
I think the capitalist system is already dead, you need markets for capitalist system.
Technofeudalism: Explaining to Slavoj Zizek why I think capitalism has evolved into something worse
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labor cost savings to the people instead of the owners.
This is the way.
Profit sharing should be a part of our laws.
Good thing our politicians that vote for us are all bought out by corporations who don’t want shit like that to pass
Taxes are essentially profit sharing
No.
Taxes pay for the infrastructure that companies rely on to operate.
Taxes don’t reward the workers for their contribution to the companies bottom line.
It seems that the work was easy enough to be replaced. I wouldn’t do a job that can be replaced by an AI in the long term.
I wouldn’t do a job that can be replaced by an AI in the long term.
What job do you do now?..
I am a car mechanic and can’t imagine being replaced by a AI or machine any time soon.
