Post Au2QEbYUMRP9BHwrVA by Dhmspector@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #Au2QEaSQRUxbmC6VPc by ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
       2025-05-12T14:09:34Z
       
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       For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them"...I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI company for hundreds of millions of dollars, has now turned his hand to investing. He had a simple message for the assembled startup founders: the money you can make in AI isn’t limited to the paltry market sizes of previous technology waves. You can replace the world’s workers – which means you can capture their salaries. All of them...."https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/12/for-silicon-valley-ai-isnt-just-about-replacing-some-jobs-its-about-replacing-all-of-them#AI #aipocalypse #capitalism #jobs #labor
       
 (DIR) Post #Au2QEbYUMRP9BHwrVA by Dhmspector@mastodon.social
       2025-05-12T14:18:58Z
       
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       @ai6yr Too bad he didn’t really cover the “less generous” outcome — the real goal. The murder of people who these tech bros don’t think are worth existing in a post-work world. Anyone who believes they are going to give up any of their wealth to fund some kind of “universal basic income” is out of their minds…Their goal is Solaria. #IYKYK
       
 (DIR) Post #Au2QEcPfAjwHqCpKNs by ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
       2025-05-12T14:39:55Z
       
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       @Dhmspector Yep, no freaking chance of UBI, IMHO. I suspect I know the same folks referred to in this article (investors) and they're not even going to give you one cent if you're not "economically important" to their own companies.
       
 (DIR) Post #Au2QEd8KUffU4jj00O by clarablackink@writing.exchange
       2025-05-13T02:38:34Z
       
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       @ai6yr @Dhmspector Yeah, I really thought my ex was a lone voice of madness on the fringes of tech (works in IT).He was obsessed with the idea that 99% of humanity needed to be wiped out so that smart people could finally start things over right.It is wild to me that versions of this are lurking all through tech and are behind much of the push for AI.Too many people think its about profit which would be bad enough but it is so surreal what else is driving it.
       
 (DIR) Post #Au5SfaJzq3w4YX2ghk by Steve@social.coop
       2025-05-13T17:13:26Z
       
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       @EricLawton @kevinrns @gooba42 @ai6yr What I mean first and foremost is protecting jobs. The workers traditionally depend on the boss to employ them, and if the boss dies, or retires, or goes bankrupt, those jobs are gone. However, if the workers become the owners, they no longer rely on the boss or any single individual. That's job stability, which not only supports the workers themselves, but their families and the other local businesses they patronize.
       
 (DIR) Post #Au5Sfbi8fmqErhLTyS by Steve@social.coop
       2025-05-13T17:23:16Z
       
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       @EricLawton @kevinrns @gooba42 @ai6yr It's true that small-town folks skew conservative around the world. So, when I talk to such folks, I play up the angles of local control, autonomy, and even self-reliance. I also talk about teaching workers business skills and giving them greater responsibility. And finally, I observe that worker co-ops have a far better track record of survival than traditional businesses.
       
 (DIR) Post #Au5SfcdZEGmLjoDLUG by paninid@mastodon.world
       2025-05-13T23:52:36Z
       
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       @Steve @EricLawton @kevinrns @gooba42 @ai6yr The messaging (framing + language) is so important: https://inaniludibrio.com/2025/05/06/the-self-reliant-patriots-guide-to-community-freedom-zones/
       
 (DIR) Post #Au5SfdrmetkFYBsDHk by me_valentijn@m.ai6yr.org
       2025-05-14T07:06:32Z
       
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       @paninid @Steve @EricLawton @kevinrns @gooba42 @ai6yr That reminds me of someone who had elaborate plans to create tax-free right-wing autonomous towns which would survive due to cooperation and mutual support. It wasn't satire, and they didn't use the C-word of course 😂 Right-wing extremists see a lot of the same serious problems that are created by capitalism. They just prefer to blame the wrong people. But when it comes to making detailed (and functional!) plans to solve them, everyone ends up pretty much in the same place.