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What was your life like in 2008? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 2 points 9 months ago* (8 children)

I think the right idea is that work should be automated away because the sole reason why people work at all besides for themselves is to make the economy function and so automating the boring work of making the economy function makes a lot of sense to do so that we can be freed up to play a different economy game that is about responsibility.

The pain point for the time being is that in the inbetween stages there isnt yet a clean way to make a hand off to that system so whenever something is automated it just leaves people high and dry

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    There's a way. UBI. But there's no appetite for it because politicians and corporations don't make mad profits off it. Line must go up faster and faster each quarter; letting the poors die in debt does this better than providing them a basic income.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    That is a good point, if partial economy is automated that leaves partial money available to handout as ubi.

    I had dismissed ubi because that is something that would only happen if there is enough pain on the consumers for them to give handouts, I guess this did happen when covid started up but that wasn't seen as a similar function as ubi...which actually I read about some tests of ubi awhile back and they seemed to do what we think they do but the tests seem to make that not so obvious.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    We can actually concentrate the consumer pain on 1% of the richest population and hurt no disadvantaged children.

    Dealing with mercenaries and police protecting them is usually the next hangup, unless you can get someone to pull it through on a charisma check. Without getting assasinated.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The problem is that LLMs aren't actually automating away any significant amount of work, just transforming it for some unlucky few (developing -> debugging slop), and fooling c-suites into laying off people for the funds to invest in the empty promises.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    For now, I think even if absolutely nothing changed with how they fundamentally worked from here on out and just kept throwing more money and data at them they could still actually automate some things away at some point, but they definitely will be also getting fundamentally better on top of this.

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