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There's so much narrative around current society how AI is terrible for taking jobs away.
That's the entire point! That's good! We're supposed to not need to do anything anymore with advancing technology.
The problem isn't that technology takes jobs away, the problem is that the savings are converted into more profit for the ultra rich, while it should be converted into having to work less for everyone.
Exactly this. There was a meme (or maybe many) rolling around long ago about how the intention was not to have humans do all the jobs and AI do all the art: quite the opposite.
This is related to the growth in productivity we have seen across industries for the last 50 years. It is through the roof, but wages are lower per unit production and aren't showing any signs of ending their stagnation.
The problem there is the same with all this new tech enhancing lives and production, while people still have to work as much as before, if not more: the gains, monetary or otherwise, are being pocketed by someone else.
It's like wage theft, but "better": it's progress theft.
Yup, in a right and just world, the government(s) would be rolling out UBI right now as people lose jobs to automation and have skill retraining programs at the ready
Nobody is against not having to work. People are against not having work in a world where you need work to survive.
There are a lot of people that are against not having to work. All people that own capital, which is not only the super rich. They might not want to work themselves, but they definitely want it to be generally the case that people should have to work to survive. And many people without capital that are brainwashed by these kinds of people, also want it to be necessary.
Outside of academia, new technology is only developed to replace jobs, or to sell commodities. A business always has incentive to do away with workers when a machine can do their job cheaper. And those machines, aren't designed to make the workers jobs easier. If regulations force safety on companies it can protect workers that way, but only to the bare minimum. If anything, machines have wrecked our bodies and minds. I'm not even convinced that commodity consumption isnt a way to shackle workers to even more machines.
Who says it should do that? When have advancements ever done that? The wealthy created the tool, and they say it should be used for unimaginable power and profits.