I just looked at google trends for the USA and the phrase "No one wants to work" didn't become popular until after the massive unemployment peak of 2020. Though the phrase kept being used even after unemployment dropped, so there's no clear relationship. Also, I think unemployment probably isn't measured in a meaningful way for this research purpose.
I work in weld shop, and we have plenty of articulate automaton welders. We call them robots, but they need humans to program them and make adjustments all day. If someone gets AI to work in those machines, then even the manual welding jobs will be on the chopping block. Great news, boss! You can cut labor costs by 80%.
Ta, Robyn. AI is a huge fraud. The "promise" of AI was to take over the boring, mindless, repetitious tasks from humans, freeing us up for creative pursuits. Instead, it's stealing copyrighted material from artists, writers, and other creatives and delivering absolutely NOTHING to the workers. It's a huge energy suck, money suck, and a total waste. The techbros don't want to admit they fucked up by promising what they'll never be able to deliver.
My Union's monthly newsletter featured a cartoon of a factory owner looking down at a factory floor filled with nothing but robots, thinking, "If I paid them a wage, they could buy my products."
Everyday Americans created Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, because we had to see a photo of the sandwich our friend had ordered, and wanted that Chinese-made landfill fodder delivered hours after ordering it online. This is on us, people.
Here in S.F. our Mayor-Elect, Daniel Lurie, of the Levi Strauss fortune, 'contributed' $8.6M to his own campaign. Although details of his agenda are "sparse," and he has no experience, he does have the coveted outsider status. He's named Altman as co-chair of his transition team, which will also include executives from Twitter and McKenzie & Co. Will Altman become Lurie's Musk?
S.F. has had it's share of problems in the 50 years I've lived here, but government by the tech bros. may not be the change the voters thought they were looking for. We shall see.
I thought MetaFace relied on knuckleheads from which to harvest habits data? I thought Tesla relied on manic depressives to crash into things or burn to death in their cars? How will these consumers consume if they have naught to consume with / be consumed by?
As AI forces a greater number of Murkans into unemployment and poverty, I foresee lots of new freelance gigs modeled after Luigi Mangione's ... activities.
If the sociopathic zuck, musk, bezos, et al. had been required to take -- and earn at least a B- in! -- several college courses in history, psychology, and sociology, then they'd know that social stability disappears when huge swathes of the population are unemployed or so under-employed that every day is a festival of anxiety. And that an anxious-then-angry-then-enraged population ***cannot*** be controlled, nor can its actions be fully predicted, such that even zuk-muk-bez can't take for granted their personal safety.
But, hey, yeah -- these guys are like, super-smart. Mega-geniuses. The smartest guys in the world.
Even the "new" Siri can't understand my mild Southern accent, or it gives me irrelevant Google results.
Big Tech is now aligned with Big Republinazi cuz they both run an 'All Scams on the Rubes' eCONomy that just pumps up the schlock market and crapto and their own megalomania.
Please consider getting rid of Siri. Please consider ditching Amazon in all ways. Ditto everything owned / controlled by bezos, musk, zuck, and the other tech bros who are sociopathically / psychopathically destroying democracy around the world and contributing massively to catastrophic global heating.
I haven't purchased anything from Amazon since about 2016, when I learned of its lousy labor practices -- despite the fact that A. sells two items that I used regularly, that I need, and that I've found nowhere else. ***I will . not . put . money . in . bezos's . pockets.*** I do without -- and it isn't the end of the world. (One of the items is an OTC sleep aid that was more effective than most -- and I have severe insomnia. ***But I do without!***)
Please, everyone: Stop feeding the beasts that are killing us!
These guys may seem like idiots, but don't let that fool you. They really are idiots.
All my life, and I'm 58, there have been more applicants than jobs available. When I had jobs, I was always treated as if I could be replaced at the drop of a hat. Want a raise? We can get somebody cheaper. Every time. Of course employment is a business relationship between equals; it's a two-way street on a level playing field.
But you (me) can be replaced any time, and you (I) should be grateful to just have a job at all.
Since COVID, that line of shit has completely fallen apart.
These guys can't figure out how to operate in a world where they actually have to compete in the free market for labor, and Hoo Boy do they hate it. Listen to the whining, and enjoy, folks!
These guys sure think they're smart at business, but that's bullshit. They're good at luring in finance, and that is not the same thing. At All.
People talked about how the Black Death brought about the Middle Class while we were in the pandemic, and, everybody, being such history buffs, thought it would be like flipping a switch.
Omgeeee the Tinder date drummer!! 🤣🤣
But the Biden Administration just couldn't...I can't even finish that. Well, may they get everything they voted for.
I just looked at google trends for the USA and the phrase "No one wants to work" didn't become popular until after the massive unemployment peak of 2020. Though the phrase kept being used even after unemployment dropped, so there's no clear relationship. Also, I think unemployment probably isn't measured in a meaningful way for this research purpose.
I work in weld shop, and we have plenty of articulate automaton welders. We call them robots, but they need humans to program them and make adjustments all day. If someone gets AI to work in those machines, then even the manual welding jobs will be on the chopping block. Great news, boss! You can cut labor costs by 80%.
Ta, Robyn. AI is a huge fraud. The "promise" of AI was to take over the boring, mindless, repetitious tasks from humans, freeing us up for creative pursuits. Instead, it's stealing copyrighted material from artists, writers, and other creatives and delivering absolutely NOTHING to the workers. It's a huge energy suck, money suck, and a total waste. The techbros don't want to admit they fucked up by promising what they'll never be able to deliver.
Who is going to buy all the goods and services these companies produce once everyone’s job has been replaced by AI?
My Union's monthly newsletter featured a cartoon of a factory owner looking down at a factory floor filled with nothing but robots, thinking, "If I paid them a wage, they could buy my products."
Everyday Americans created Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, because we had to see a photo of the sandwich our friend had ordered, and wanted that Chinese-made landfill fodder delivered hours after ordering it online. This is on us, people.
Here in S.F. our Mayor-Elect, Daniel Lurie, of the Levi Strauss fortune, 'contributed' $8.6M to his own campaign. Although details of his agenda are "sparse," and he has no experience, he does have the coveted outsider status. He's named Altman as co-chair of his transition team, which will also include executives from Twitter and McKenzie & Co. Will Altman become Lurie's Musk?
S.F. has had it's share of problems in the 50 years I've lived here, but government by the tech bros. may not be the change the voters thought they were looking for. We shall see.
Levis, which trades almost exclusively on its American image, makes its products in China.
Day One. Change the Area Code to "501".
I thought MetaFace relied on knuckleheads from which to harvest habits data? I thought Tesla relied on manic depressives to crash into things or burn to death in their cars? How will these consumers consume if they have naught to consume with / be consumed by?
I could easily be replaced at work with a whipping post.
More thoughtful here, they use a bespoke pillory.
As AI forces a greater number of Murkans into unemployment and poverty, I foresee lots of new freelance gigs modeled after Luigi Mangione's ... activities.
If the sociopathic zuck, musk, bezos, et al. had been required to take -- and earn at least a B- in! -- several college courses in history, psychology, and sociology, then they'd know that social stability disappears when huge swathes of the population are unemployed or so under-employed that every day is a festival of anxiety. And that an anxious-then-angry-then-enraged population ***cannot*** be controlled, nor can its actions be fully predicted, such that even zuk-muk-bez can't take for granted their personal safety.
But, hey, yeah -- these guys are like, super-smart. Mega-geniuses. The smartest guys in the world.
You know who were the smartest guys in the world?
The spermatozoa that were the first to the eggs.
Don't forget for one minute how heavily armed these soon to be less than perfectly gruntled folks are. I'm hoping to avoid the crossfire.
When AI replaces all the jobs, how will the peasants pay rent and eat? Can’t make more healthy white babies if we can’t afford to eat, skum.
Hunting and gathering. Of CEOS and upper management.
More likely, CEOs will be hunting us for sport.
Genius drummer boy apparently never heard of Gary Moore
I can't paste a photo... so a link
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/70308550-stop-forcing-ai-red?store_id=670898
But have you tried my AI brownies recipe? It now has 37% less hydrochloric acid and bumper.
Ha!! Love it.
𝘞𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵, 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘺-𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴.
Now change "people" to "idiots" and tell me how that reads?
Because that's what you're doing.
Even the "new" Siri can't understand my mild Southern accent, or it gives me irrelevant Google results.
Big Tech is now aligned with Big Republinazi cuz they both run an 'All Scams on the Rubes' eCONomy that just pumps up the schlock market and crapto and their own megalomania.
Please consider getting rid of Siri. Please consider ditching Amazon in all ways. Ditto everything owned / controlled by bezos, musk, zuck, and the other tech bros who are sociopathically / psychopathically destroying democracy around the world and contributing massively to catastrophic global heating.
I haven't purchased anything from Amazon since about 2016, when I learned of its lousy labor practices -- despite the fact that A. sells two items that I used regularly, that I need, and that I've found nowhere else. ***I will . not . put . money . in . bezos's . pockets.*** I do without -- and it isn't the end of the world. (One of the items is an OTC sleep aid that was more effective than most -- and I have severe insomnia. ***But I do without!***)
Please, everyone: Stop feeding the beasts that are killing us!
I have, so far, avoided joining Delivery Nation.
These guys may seem like idiots, but don't let that fool you. They really are idiots.
All my life, and I'm 58, there have been more applicants than jobs available. When I had jobs, I was always treated as if I could be replaced at the drop of a hat. Want a raise? We can get somebody cheaper. Every time. Of course employment is a business relationship between equals; it's a two-way street on a level playing field.
But you (me) can be replaced any time, and you (I) should be grateful to just have a job at all.
Since COVID, that line of shit has completely fallen apart.
These guys can't figure out how to operate in a world where they actually have to compete in the free market for labor, and Hoo Boy do they hate it. Listen to the whining, and enjoy, folks!
These guys sure think they're smart at business, but that's bullshit. They're good at luring in finance, and that is not the same thing. At All.
People talked about how the Black Death brought about the Middle Class while we were in the pandemic, and, everybody, being such history buffs, thought it would be like flipping a switch.
Tumultuous times.