If you are white collar then it’s going to “disrupt” your field.
I work in tech. I got laid off last year. I wasn’t at Alphabet or Amazon or anything. Much smaller company. But AI “optimization” has ravaged the tech industry and not just programmers. Admins, database specialists, network specialists, developers, you name it. Our job market is absolutely fucked.
In my county, a major metro area in the US (like, top 10) craigslist used to be the place to get real job postings. If it wasn’t a recruiter then your odds of getting a callback from a job posting there is pretty high. There are plenty of postings for other fields like mechanics and tradesmen and so on. For the few tech categories: nothing in the last month. Zero postings. Not even recruiter ads. Literally nothing. It’s a wasteland.
I’ve been told to “go back to school.” I’ll be 41 soon. I’m still paying off my computer science degree. It’s worthless. What else should I go for? Accounting? HR? These are going to be taken by AI, too. Will it be a mistake? Sure. They don’t care. They’ll do it anyways.
When I got my degree my wife and I were homeless. We just got back out of the hole in the last 10 years. I was finally building savings. It’ll be gone in 60 days. She was laid off on Friday. Her industry is in property finance. Another gutted industry. She has to change industries, too.
What is to be done?
if i understood the capital correctly (i probably didnt) this will only lead to diminishing profits as all competition slowly adopts it unless they can keep a monopoly.
either way ai can’t replace human workers that well yet, they will royally fuck up and we will somehow pay the price for it.
i think its on the second volume, cant remember the chapter.
the logic is that you can’t scam a machine into working for cheaper, they need a set amount of maintenance and money to stay running or else you run into problems.
humans can be scammed and convinced to work all day for barely any money. if you want to profit from a machine you jack your prices up or plummet quality, but you are still scamming humans at the other end anyway.
