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Will AI kill bullshit jobs or will it just create more bullshit jobs?
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>>106776087
Even burger flippers are not safe. You'll walk into a Mickey Dees, order your slop and never even see a human involved
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>>106776087
If the hype is real then it's going to kill off a fuck ton of jobs, and create a much smaller set of new jobs. The potential of AI will cause mass unemployment, with minimal job creation. The question is if the hype is real or not.
If the hype is real, then it explains why they're pushing for population decline. They want to manage the population, before rolling it out, to stop revolution.
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>>106776115
I'd rather have a robot prepare my food than a nigger
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>>106776087
Create more bullshit jobs
People aren't employed because they're needed, they're employed because someone thinks her can make money off them. If only necessary jobs existed the economy would collapse
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>>106776168
Shiii cuh wubbout that "human touch" you feel me? Aint a burger I ever made that I dont kiss with my dick first.
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>>106776115
You already do this in Sydney international airport
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>>106776087
It will create more bullshit jobs cleaning up the mistakes made by trying to use AI to do other bullshit jobs.
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>>106776236
I forgot to add that, in principle, the more “successful” an economy, the more bullshit jobs there are. Time spent in work, even for purely its own sake, is valuable. Work isn’t a means, it’s an end.
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It gave the jews the excuse to sack hundreds of thousands of people and then replace them with Indians. So yeah, its already done that, OP. Just not directly.
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Neither.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/ai_isnt_taking_people_jobs/
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>>106776186
People are employed because work is adult daycare.
90% of office jobs are useless, but you need to keep them in a cage to keep them occupied for the better part of the day
and too tired afterwards
and always thankful for having a job and anxious of losing it

if they had nothing to do all day they would rebel
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>>106776328
On a society level that's true, but people don't start a business with the intent to be adult day care, they start a business with the intent to make money and they think that the service they offer can outcompete others who offer a similar service. As long as people think they can make money by starting a business, they will keep employing people
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>>106776328
>work is adult daycare.
Nah, buddy. You already used that excuse about college, you're just a loser mooching off of mommy and daddy.
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>>106776087
there will always be bullshit jobs because of overpopulation.
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>>106776335
people starting businesses is irrelevant
most people work on mega-corp behemoths and these are the ones who shape the economy

the ultra-rich shareholders of these companies do very much think about societal issues, because that's the only realistic threat they face

they want to keep the population placated and DnCed so they don't face any threats to their hegemony
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>>106776726
>most people work on mega-corp behemoths
source?
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>>106776364
I do work you dumb nigger.
This is my observation from working
Most people are useless and 90% of office time is spent in useless stuff like meetings all day long which do not solve anything

As well as that many people, especially the ones with families, actually prefer working than being at home with their family
Office time is literally their "play time" away from screaming kids and nagging wives
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>>106776734
just google it
and what is the goal of these small businesses anyway?
it's to be bought by mega-corp after succeeding
so you are still working for mega-corp even if you think you aren't
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NO ONE IS SAFE THIS NOT A QUESTION OF WHETER IT WILL KILL JOBS OR NOT IT IS A QUESTION OF WHETER CORPORATE WILL USE IT AS AN EXCUSE TO FIRE MORE PEOPLE AND HAVE ONE PERSON DO THE WORK OF FIVE
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automation only affects the number of jobs available in the short run. new technologies have always displaced workers from jobs, but new jobs tend to pop up as long as productivity remains up. i don't think AI is really increasing productivity, it's really just a distraction and anyone who actually believes ChatGPT has replaced entry level coding jobs is just too stupid to work in that field anyway

>>106776328
imo you're sort of right but it's not as punitive as you make it out. people will outright riot if they don't feel a sense of equality and justice when it comes to their lot in life. everyone having jobs that seem equally useful is the only real way we can keep things stable and relatively high trust

>>106776335
businesses don't intend to do this, but afaik governments flood the economy with so much capital that they end up doing it anyway. however no one is hiring currently because the free money strat has already been overused and now it has kinda broken the economy. boomers have way too much money for there to be any incentive for young people to work, so everyone is kinda confused. rich people are having their sweet time fucking around for now but there may eventually be a time of finding out like in nepal

>>106776726
>the ultra-rich shareholders of these companies do very much think about societal issues
they used to but nowadays we are seeing a shift where, instead of spending their money to improve their immediate surroundings, they instead move away to somewhere that isn't as shitty. any reasonable government would wise up to this and strip away their assets when they do this parasitical shit, but i think they're all sorta bought up by now so it doesn't happen anymore
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>>106776087
It will kill non-bullshit jobs
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>>106776087
All jobs are bullshit jobs let's face it. What's the purpose of living? We live to keep living and that's it. There is no grand scheme or purpose. All or at least most arguments against this will
reach for things that you're already dismissing as "bullshit work" like art etc things that people feel give life meaning. There will only be "non-bullshit jobs" if you can identify the true purpose of our existence and you might think you can but you can't because there is none.

But let's just assume our purpose is "survival": survival of our species and of our societies. That means meaningful jobs are food production and distribution, government, policing, firefighting, healthcare, engineering (only if it pertains to technology essential for "survival"), education and training (only if the subjects are necessary for "survival")

Then you start to have problems with the capitalist structure of society. "Bullshit jobs" have to exist because there are not enough "meaningful jobs" to employ all the people who are expected to work. And people are expected to work, to pay for their own keep.

Eventually AI and robotics are going to get so good as to make all but the most elite humans completely obsolete, to the point that any job you'd be doing, unless you were an exceptional human like, for example, Stephen Hawking was, would be a bullshit job, designed to make you think you're doing something when actually it's just charity, and your "work" is a net loss that a machine would have done 100x faster at a higher quality standard.
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>>106776087
when robots get involved it will kill a lot of jobs. will drive wages down. won't be enough to start preparing for some profession as things will get taken over faster than your 4-10 years of preparing for some domain
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>>106777424
>copy-pasted LLM response
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>>106777531
What makes you think an LLM wrote it?
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Wake me up when a robot can give me a haircut or clean my toilet or empty my dishwasher.



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