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[–] 4 points 5 months ago

Theyre just making words up at this point

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    “Significant productivity in the economy is going to raise the standard of living,” he said. “People who today have two-earner households, they’ll become one-earner households. Maybe some people who are working overtime will stop working overtime.”

    Yea this will never happen with you greedy fucks trying to minimize labor cost as much as possible. You are more like to use AI as leverage to pay people less than to allow them to work less for the same income.

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    [–] 152 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    “Significant productivity in the economy is going to raise the standard of living,” he said. “People who today have two-earner households, they’ll become one-earner households. Maybe some people who are working overtime will stop working overtime.”

    I fucking love it when the exact people who make it their life's mission not to pay their employees living wages so that they can hoard wealth like an evil dragon come out and tell us that the new tech they are using to replace us will make us rich. Really fucking Jeff? How about we eat you and take it? That's the only way I see it happening.

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  • [–] 51 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    No, he said two-earner households, will become one-earner households, he didn't mention* anyone will become rich**, just that one person from the household will become unemployed.

    (* at least he didn't mention it in the cited fragment. I didn't read the entire thing, my time is too precious, I must waste it on writing comments instead of reading sources.) (** Of course he will become richer, but that's the obvious part of the idea and doesn't need to be mentioned)

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    How exactly will two earner households become one earner households without one of the earners making double the money?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The theory here is that if everyone is twice as productive, everything costs half as much in relation to what people earn.

    Of course that doesn't work unless there's heavy competition in the market for everything.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I've heard many a time from many a booster that AI will lead to UBI. This reminds me of that. CEOs selling delusion in a desperate attempt to distract from the reality, always claiming better lives are just around the next corner.

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  • [–] 59 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    That 12 billion could have gone to health care, helping the homeless, improving schools, for research into diseases, into renewable energy sources or into making affordable houses.

    But this is what we get.

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  • [–] 41 points 5 months ago

    "You're absolutely right, I should not have built that bridge that way"

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  • [–] 38 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    $12 billion would pay for a lot of engineers...

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Oh man, I misread that as $128!

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

    That's less than a stick of ram...how did that make sense to you?

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    How is I read this wrong a joke? It's almost inevitable that someone in any comment section feels the need to put their dyslexia on display for some odd reason. What makes this one humorous?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Couple different layers of joke, actually.

    The first is that they didn't actually misread $12B as $128, but saying so is a cheeky reference to how B and 8 look similar.

    The second is sort of an attempt at absurdist humor. Obviously $128 is not going to get you very far towards building a physical AI engineer, and that question violates our rational expectations in a way that some find humorous.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago

    Pay your taxes, parasite

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    They could just make an artificial general CEO and get rid of his payments altogether, stock holders would get a huge rise

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Right? Pretty interesting that perhaps one of the easiest jobs to replace is never mentioned by them.

    Talking about replacing fucking engineers with unaccountable black boxes before even mentioning CEOs.

    What a fucking joke.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    They better start putting fucking labels on AI engineered buildings and bridges because I sure as fuck am not getting inside or on one.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    Wages for workers are the biggest line item for most companies. Owners hates it because that money is theirs, by golly. The concept of being part of an economy never enters their stream of consciousness, only the desire to optimize sucking money out of it.

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    Not saying someone should but..... I would not be sad.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Inb4 all staircases look like this

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    All that money, and he does nothing of value for society. At least the OG evil rich guys of the 1900s did charitable things sometimes.

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    You can hire metric tons of human engineers for that.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    At the end of the day I trust a pick and a shovel way more than this once-removed bullshit.

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    There are so many more worthwhile startup projects you can pour $12B into.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Ah, but can it blow up like a mushroom cloud?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    But i like my job

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    0.7% of a spacex?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    It'd be quite fitting for Bezos to be chained to a rock and for an eagle to eat his liver every day, which grows back every night, forever.

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    [–] 26 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    These chuckle-fucks still don't want liability for their designs but they want to replace pharmacologists and bridge builders?

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    [–] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Personally I wouldn’t trust a lawn chair engineered by AI…let alone anything consequential.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Boy, I sure someone would chain him to a rock and send an eagle to eat his liver every day for all eternity.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Them billionaires truly have an interesting self image. Prometheus he calls it. I don't know anyone further away from Prometheus than Bezos.

    Giving fire to the people? Maybe to burn their houses down so they have to book sleep pods inside his warehouses where they slave away endlessly. He'd give the filthy mortals nothing for free. Nothing.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Of course. While the whole worlds population is being phased out this guy does pie in the sky mulling but, because he can't mull, he needs to throw money at it in a desperate, quiet rage.

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    [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    “Significant productivity in the economy is going to raise the standard of living,” he said. “People who today have two-earner households, they’ll become one-earner households. Maybe some people who are working overtime will stop working overtime.”

    I fucking love it when the exact people who make it their life's mission not to pay their employees living wages so that they can hoard wealth like an evil dragon come out and tell us that the new tech they are using to replace us will make us rich. Really fucking Jeff? How about we eat you and take it? That's the only way I see it happening.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    From the guy who's company recently blew up an entire launch pad and facility?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Oh fuck off

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