The AI boom is screwing over Gen Z | ChatGPT is commandeering the mundane tasks that young employees have relied on to advance their careers.::ChatGPT is commandeering the tasks that young employees rely on to advance their careers. That’s going to crush Gen Z’s career path.

  • Sheltac@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But that would require some mechanism for redistributing wealth and taking care if those who choose not to work, and everyone knows that’s communism.

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      1 year ago

      So much this. The way headlines like this frame the situation is so ass-backwards it makes my brain hurt. In any sane world, we’d be celebrating the automation of mundane tasks as freeing up time and resources to improve our health, happiness, and quality of life instead of wringing our hands about lost livelihoods.

      The correct framing is that the money and profits generated by those mundane tasks are still realized, it’s just that they are no longer going to workers, but funneled straight to the top. People need to get mad as hell not at the tech, but at those who are leveraging that tech to specifically to deny them opportunity rather than improving their life.

      I need a beer. 😐

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        money and profits generated by those mundane tasks are still realized, it’s just that they are no longer going to workers, but funneled straight to the top

        Workers should be paid royalties for their contributions. If “the top” is able to reap the rewards indefinitely, so should the folks who built the systems.

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      1 year ago

      This is where I was kind of on board with Andrew Yang. He was looking to setup UBI based on a tax on automation that displaced jobs. I think at first this would be very small, but having the systems in place would be important to allow it to scale up when it’s needed, rather than trying to just start the conversation once it’s a big problem.

      That being said, I’m not a fan of your phrasing around, “those who choose not to work.” Being displaced by automation and not having the capability for some of the in demand jobs is one thing. Being mentally and physically able to work, and just deciding you’ll let others do that while you bring nothing to the table… that’s a different issue. UBI allows us to not have to worry about that distinction, and the resulting payout will be lower because of it, meaning people wouldn’t be living well on it, especially at first. It wouldn’t be a living wage, just a nice little bonus. To give everyone 14+ in the US $20/month would cost $5.5B… so we’re talking really small to start.