Drawmeomg t1_j9yhwev wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:28 PM

Reply to comment by roscoelee in The Job Market Apocalypse: We Must Democratize AI Now! by Otarih

When it’s literally every job, who knows? Cultural realignment.

For real world examples of what happens to workers when large industries are automated to the point where whole communities are no longer needed, look at former steelworking communities in the Rust Belt in the US. Brain drain, people who can move away do, people who can’t end up dependent on government assistance, skyrocketing drug abuse and general despair.

Judgethunder t1_j9yrz2c wrote on February 25, 2023 at 3:44 PM

The difference between previous automations in textiles and transportation is that those actually created more jobs than they replaced.

What we are taking about here is potentially eliminating ALL jobs besides owning capital.

ReptileCultist t1_j9z6t8m wrote on February 25, 2023 at 5:23 PM

The question is why this time automation should be different than before

Judgethunder t1_j9zbi6p wrote on February 25, 2023 at 5:54 PM

Because an artificial intelligence is not the same thing as a railroad or a textile machine.

The assumption that you should be questioning is why it should be the same.

Feynnehrun t1_j9zfdhl wrote on February 25, 2023 at 6:20 PM

Because, when a single industry automates a process, there are other places those workers can go after retraining. It certainly sucks for them but society is minimally impacted. When labor becomes a thing of the past, we still need to trade for and acquire goods. It would make zero sense to have a fully autonomous society that produces everything we need, but nobody is able to acquire those things because there are no jobs. Likely this would translate into a universal income.