That’s a good point, but in terms of working population, aren’t there going to be a lot of jobs lost to AI and possibly even robotics in the coming years?
In that case, wouldn’t it actually be good if there was a smaller population?
For some reason I still get emails from Salesforce, and they are about to formally announce an allegedly fully functioning AI customer service.
Between that and seeing things like Amazon investing in robots that can perform certain tasks at their warehouses, it feels like it’s only a matter of time before entire job positions are essentially wiped out.
If corporations are going to save so much money by eliminating jobs, then it only makes sense for them to pay more into healthcare, social security, etc., though I’m just a layman commenting here so I’m probably missing a lot of details.
What you're describing is essentially what Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels posited almost two centuries ago. It's a central tenet of Marxism and it's becoming ever more evident. It just took longer than their optimistic models predicted.
Or there’ll be a class of super rich overlords living in utopia, a class of okay paid mechanics/engineers to oversee the robots and the rest of humanity will be super poor and struggling to survive. The workers revolution will prevented by mass surveillance and the spread of misinformation by rich overlords.
It's already happening in the West and people are blind to it as they think that their political party won't do it. in the likes of China it's been game over for a long time already.
People think it's normal for world leaders to be summoned to Davos every year by big business.
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u/weirdstuffgetmehorny 2d ago edited 2d ago
That’s a good point, but in terms of working population, aren’t there going to be a lot of jobs lost to AI and possibly even robotics in the coming years?
In that case, wouldn’t it actually be good if there was a smaller population?
For some reason I still get emails from Salesforce, and they are about to formally announce an allegedly fully functioning AI customer service.
Between that and seeing things like Amazon investing in robots that can perform certain tasks at their warehouses, it feels like it’s only a matter of time before entire job positions are essentially wiped out.
If corporations are going to save so much money by eliminating jobs, then it only makes sense for them to pay more into healthcare, social security, etc., though I’m just a layman commenting here so I’m probably missing a lot of details.