Productivity will go up, wages will remain the same, and no additional time off will be given to employees. They’ll merely be required to produce 4x as much and compensation will not increase to match.
It seems the point of all these machines and automation isn’t to make our individual lives easier and more prosperous, but instead to increase and maximize shareholder value.
You think they guy who writes code to make Xbox games work, or the woman who does data analytics in R and Excel to optimize cloud hosting traffic shaping rules (or whatever), is the same as ICE and the SS?!
Jesus Christ. Climb out from under your rock and go meet some real people doing real things, and do some real things of value yourself. Maybe learn how to make something with tech. Maybe learn a little bit of code, I don’t know.
I work in tech. I am not rounding up my Hispanic neighbors for ICE, nor am I building spyware infrastructure for Palantir. I write code to help doctors and nurses do their jobs more effectively and efficiently. But fuck me I guess for trying to earn a living by providing some value. And fuck Microsoft employees for writing code to allow people to play video games or whatever.
Oh, fuck you.
People need an income, and they work hard to provide for their families.
Tech employees are people, too. And many of them spent years perfecting a very difficult set of skills that the market is quickly deciding isn’t as valuable as it once was, because their corporate employers regard them merely as resources to be exploited and then discarded at the first opportunity. That sucks.
It sucks whomever it happens to, be it warehouse workers, truck drivers, call center employees, retail and customer service employees, or office knowledge workers. Just because a person had made a pretty good salary doesn’t mean they haven’t still be exchanging their precious time for dollars like the rest of us, grinding away their life at a job rather than spending quality time with their loved ones and persuing their own hobbies and interests.
Seriously, fuck you dude.
Oh I’m an idiot. Good night!
Huh? No, corn definitely has sugar in it.
What I mean is, a portion of corn or corn products causes a WAY HIGHER glucose spike with me, than does an equivalently sized portion (by weight or volume) of white rice, beans, milk, or even chocolate cake cake. I don’t know why.
I wear a CGM (not diabetic, just a weird nerd).
I can assert that artificial sweeteners do not, in fact, affect insulin at all (at least for this n=1). After a Coke Zero, Diet Coke, or Ghost Energy, my blood sugar remains unaffected for hours (if no other calories are introduced).
Corn, however, in any form, fucks my shit up, blood glucose-wise. Way more than any other starch. No idea why.
There are also external AI tools that do this just fine.
But imagine these tools generating summaries of summaries.
I guess. But I think we can do a soft and gentle landing (settling on 2-4 billion, eventually, once everyone sustainably maintains 1.5 kids per family on average) rather than a hard and abrupt collapse. I don’t think we’re stuck between all or nothing here.
Right!!!
Sure, but with fewer people overall, there will be fewer houses, attics, and roads being built in the first place.
This is not a “crisis.”
The only major challenge we face with falling birth rates is figuring out how we care for the elderly. Ok, that’s something we need to figure out and get right.
However, otherwise, falling birth rates is a good thing.
We simply don’t need 8 billion+ people on planet Earth. It’s too many.
I’d rather future generations maintain a smaller population, and enjoy a better quality of life overall. They’d have more space, more clean air and clean water, bigger national parks, fewer crowded spaces, less congestion and traffic, more trees, fish, birds, and critters, and bigger plots of land with more distance between neighbors.
Healthcare is, sadly, tied to employment here in the US. That’s why the distinction between “full-time” and “part-time.”
I cannot go part time for that reason (even if it were an option in our industry to begin with).
I’d much rather be able to scale up and down my work hours, as needed (given life circumstances, current money needs, energy levels, etc.). But that’s a pipe dream.
I want to do this, too, but computers is how I earn money.
Stock up on old physical books
A parasite keeps reminding you it’s there until it (or you) is destroyed.
Good.
100%.
Fun fact: intentionally leaving pee on floors and toilet seats is a lesser-known but frequently-observed associated trait of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).
I guess it’s some kind of primal lizard brained “territorial” thing, I dunno.
At home, absolutely.
Out and about, I ain’t sitting on that nasty seat, thank you very much.
And we don’t even use them effectively to protect our rights.
Rednote 小红书 is much better than TikTok anyway, obvious propaganda and all.