Capitalism is a cancerous disease which will result in our self-annihilation if it isn’t stopped.
“Learn to work like this now or you will be left behind.” The “experts” say.
well there goes my chances of landing a job. I had one thing mention a flexible work schedule and I asked them about it like can I make my own hours or shifts or decide how many hours to work or what. Did not hear back. Don’t know if they don’t like my questions or if they would have blown me off either way.
Interviewed at a place. Asked how many hours for a normal work week in engineering. They casually say 45-50. Mentally shut that door so damn fast.
Honestly I assume 50 if it pays well. Im increasingly seeing where I think they want to float on the idea the experience will lead to a better job with the good pay but want all that. And they are looking for experience that someone would have had to be in the field at least 10 years to get so the person should not need the exp to get better pay. If the corps want to make the recruitment process a sodomy contest then imma out.
imagine wrecking your life working to advance a thing for which the ultimate end goal is to replace you entirely
I don’t have to imagine :(
imagine wrecking your life working to advance a thing for which the ultimate end goal is to replace you entirely
That isn’t new with AI. Non-AI Automation has been the goal (and achievement) of business for decades.
Automation is great , everything should be automated as much as possible.
IF everyone benefits from it in the form of higher wages/less working hours due to the higher productivity.
IF everyone benefits from it in the form of higher wages/less working hours due to the higher productivity.
I know this is a common philosophical statement, but I haven’t yet seen a great implementation of it in reality. I’m interested if your approach is viable.
Scenario:
Lets say we have a 25 year old worker named Jim. Jim was hired and his job for 1 year was to log into a system, look up specific values, and populate these values into fields in an Excel spreadsheet. At the beginning of the second year, a small Bash script (computer code) was written by an engineer and set to run on a repeating daily schedule that did all of the lookups and sheet population that was Jim’s entire job. The entirely of Jim’s job has been replaced by automation.
Result:
Jim no longer has any work to do for the organization. There aren’t any other open positions at the company for Jim (or if there are Jim is not even remotely qualified to do those other jobs).
- So how would you apply your philosophy to this situation?
- Do you believe the organization should continue to employ Jim even without any work for him?
- Should he be let go, but still paid? If so, how much, and for how long?
I thought the point was to have AI do everything… if you’re requiring 12 hour days, doesn’t that just mean the AI is failing?
Turns out that the folks who came up with “Move Fast. Break Things.” as a business stategy aren’t very good at business stategizing.
Remember kids, this is why you never EVER listen to techbros about how to structure society.
.XKCD 2030
996 is the most inhuman idea. What is the point?
You have already answered yourself
