What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

Posted by RickJWagner 1 day ago

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers(www.noemamag.com)

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slimtrees 13 hours ago|

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defen 13 hours ago|

Very disturbing comment and not something you should joke about, especially number 3.

yestheydo 13 hours ago||

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sri9s 1 day ago||

tech people need to become business owners

dgellow 1 day ago||

how about just letting us behind? You go on your AI futuristic trip, don't force it on others, and you can then come back and tell us how fantastic your life is while we all missed the boat. That's fine with me. But that's not what will happen, right? AI is being forced on everybody, everywhere. Which means it really doesn't matter if we jump in right now, agentic stuff will still be the norm in 5 years, and at that point you can show us all the magical things you're doing. I'm sure that will convince way more people than the current approach of "join right now or be left behind!!!"

hostyle 1 day ago|||

how will that help? being a business owner magically makes you immune from ai stealing your job?

gverrilla 1 day ago||

there's no space for everybody. not even near. free market is inherently oligopolic for most cases..

win311fwg 1 day ago||

Oligopolies are unlikely in a free market because as soon as you do anything interesting a million other people will copy what you are doing wholesale and you will have no advantage to see you rise up to form an oligopoly. We find oligopolies in our regulated markets because regulation, such as copyright, patents, tariffs, etc., legally hinder that competition from emerging.

However, even if we accept oligopolies as inevitable, that doesn't mean the tech people cannot collectively own those oligopolies. A business does not have to be owned by just one person. Cooperatives are a thing.

Draiken 6 hours ago||

Taking aside the fact that free markets are a myth, all we have to do is look at our current society and you'll see how utopic this view is.

In the real world, oligopolies are the rule not the exception.

win311fwg 3 hours ago||

Our current society is shaped by its regulation and the regulation is shaped by our current society. Regulated markets and our society are one and the same. To separate some kind of imagined free market out of that while still clinging to the same society doesn't make sense. They are fundamentally inseparable.

In the real world, the markets are regulated. We are talking about where there is a free market. Was your comment posted just to let us know that you don't give things much thought?

twodave 1 day ago|

Yeah, it probably is sad to be so unimaginative or pessimistic about your skill set that you see AI as an impediment and not a boon.

logicchains 1 day ago|

It's the same as the old "As hire As, Bs hire Cs".