SWATSgradyBABY t1_it69lsk wrote on October 21, 2022 at 6:18 AM

Reply to comment by TheSingulatarian in If you believe you can think exponentially, you might be wrong. Transformative AI is here, and it is going to radically change the world before the Singularity, and before AGI. by AdditionalPizza

I think they are trying to get paid for working

s2ksuch t1_it8obav wrote on October 21, 2022 at 7:07 PM

Thats fine but at the same time the whole state can benefit from reducing labor costs and saving taxpayers money. Both sides need to come to an agreement: Reduce future hiring, maybe lay off workers not pulling their own weight, and implement automation. Allow existing people to maintain jobs until they retire and continue to automate until it's pretty much 100% (if not 100%0. But to allow people to keep high paying jobs that we can save big costs on? That's a hard sell for me.

Same thing went on in NYC. I went to college and got a degree but friends that 'knew someone' could get these jobs working docks making easily six figures.

SWATSgradyBABY t1_it8wzl3 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 8:06 PM

If you were the business owner, that statement would make sense, but for the other 99% the math literally doesn't add up. Literally. What is labor cost to the owner is survival to the worker? Jobs aren't a debit to taxpayers. Jobs are quite literally a credit. Tax revenue is generated from jobs. I'm not arguing in favor of jobs. I think that we should already be at a near jobless society. But we have made decisions as a society that's been driven largely by the mandates of business owners who benefit greatly by not reducing work. I would love to see us feature point now where we can introduce automation while negotiating a democratic (small d) changeover to a a socialist society.