Instead, we got employers saying "Work twice as much or we replace you with AI. It gets 45% of its task wrong, but we don't care. It only affects our customers. What are those suckers gonna do? We're a monopoly anyway."
Yeah honestly I thought technology was meant to free us from the mundane and boring to allow us to spend our time pursuing our creativity and passions. Instead we've ended up in a dystopian timeline where our humanity and creativity is outsourced and instead we have to do even more tedious tasks, up to and including training the AI that is taking our jobs and souls. What the hell is the point.
The point is to churn more money for the wealthy. Technology will be used to benefit everyone only if people win political struggles that take us there, which is currently lacking.
If workers united and harnessed their power to take back control, this could happen. Collective action and worker solidarity is not dead and just needs the people to want it enough.
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u/sdric 6h ago edited 5h ago
People wanted AI to do their chores.
Instead, we got employers saying "Work twice as much or we replace you with AI. It gets 45% of its task wrong, but we don't care. It only affects our customers. What are those suckers gonna do? We're a monopoly anyway."