• Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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    18 hours ago

    The jobs thing i don’t understand, its the distribution of productivity gains that’s the issue, why we keep voting for the same politicians ensuring it goes to the wealthy is the real mystery.

    • danciestlobster@lemmy.zip
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      18 hours ago

      Oh, I absolutely agree. But currently, the people in charge of making those decisions have demonstrated moral bankruptcy and will absolutely ensure the productivity gains funnel to the top. Until that changes, AI impact on jobs will likely be devastating.

      And I’m all for changing it. It’s just going to be a long and/or violent process.

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        17 hours ago

        Productivity gains are not across the board, and is a subject of scrutiny and debate.

        But what AI really has done is basically redistributed American wealth to a smaller group of people, and therefore a smaller pool for the US politicians to focus on satisfying. If there is an AI bubble pop, what market watchers suspect is there’s actually no other American sector to mitigate what is otherwise a recession.