Dust off the guillotine...

[u/anon1982012]

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[u/Temporary-Dot4952]

"Humans are worthless unless they make the rich, richer." - The US

[u/winter-ocean]

If you showed this to a guy from the 90s they'd just think it's a bladerunner sequel

[u/starman-jack-43 → u/winter-ocean]

I was thinking a satirical advert from Robocop, but yeah.

[u/AdultbabyEinstein → u/starman-jack-43]

I wouldn't buy that for a dollar

[u/ThisCharmingDan99 → u/starman-jack-43]

Yea, I was about to say RoboCop. That movie really nailed it.

[u/Consistent_Weather65]

Whats hilarious about this is that it will destroy capitalism as it needs consumers, plus since AI produces regardless of incentives it might bring about socialism as wealth hoarding becomes unnaceptable and AI will work for the collective just as good as for a greedy bastard.

[u/EviePop2001 → u/Consistent_Weather65]

Thats the whole thing about capitalism rn that doesnt make sense to me, companies are paying as little as possible and also charging as much as possible, forcing people to barely survive and only buy essentials (if they even can), and that is destroying future consumers/income just so they can squeeze a little more profit rn. It doesnt make any sense, if everyone is starving and homeless who is gonna buy their stupid stuff???

[u/Warhero_Babylon → u/EviePop2001]

It dont matter if a specific person can overconsume at this exact second. Its not rational

[u/nengon → u/EviePop2001]

That's why a lot of big companies don't have people as their target demographic, they use consumers as assets in the company, it's all about business to business until it doesn't work, or it's unsustainable, then rinse and repeat.

[u/Party_Image5023 → u/EviePop2001]

We as of right now in America are moving into a society where jobs are going to be scarce. During Covid it was the largest transfer of wealth. With AI and robotics soon the elite won't even need us anymore. Genocide is on the horizon I am afraid

[u/RebeccaSavage1 → u/EviePop2001]

Agreed, I have been thinking about this very thing the last few years.

[u/Sweet-Emu6376 → u/EviePop2001]

This is why there's a recession every ten or so years.

The cost of living imbalance gets to a point where no one has discretionary funds, and it destroys our consumer based economy.

People forget that there were recession signals in 2019 before COVID hit. It simply exacerbated what was already happening. The stimulus checks and additional unemployment money simply kicked the can down the road. The wage stagnation and continued increases in cost of living is just steering us towards another recession.

[u/xela-ecaps → u/Consistent_Weather65]

How will you convince AI workers to buy your products?

[u/speakhyroglyphically → u/Consistent_Weather65]

Whats hilarious about this is that it will destroy capitalism as it needs consumers

Reminds me of a line in the matrix between Neo and the architect

Neo: You won’t let it happen, you can’t. You need human beings to survive.

The Architect: There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept

The system of the 1% will be fine anyway and they know it. Maybe were all just more overhead to them

[u/Consistent_Weather65 → u/speakhyroglyphically]

No... we would kill them way before that. French revolution russian revolution etcetera.... been there and we know it doesn't end well for them. The hamptons are not a defensible position.

[u/jizmaticporknife]

I mean, a more “Utopian” society would let AI and robotics in general take over all the labor and allow humans to live free, but we live in a capitalist hellscape dystopia where they want to maintain the current system and displace workers. To this we just need to answer with bullets and guillotines. At a certain point we will get our workers bill of rights.

[u/Elegant-Astronaut636]

Ai development under capitalism is going to be very interesting. How will they keep everyone busy? Will we just be sitting around fighting for food?

[u/ddwood87 → u/Elegant-Astronaut636]

Sitters won't be eating, but yes.

[u/Elegant-Astronaut636 → u/ddwood87]

Yeah screw the sitters. Walkers deserve to eat even the rollers can get around.

[u/NoKiaYesHyundai]

There's something incredibly poetic about capitalisms use of AI to replace the mundane and/or artisan of jobs, instead of the most dangerous and tedious.

[u/eyeballburger]

AI for CEOS, you’d save the equivalent of 100s of actual workers.

[u/Retroth_The_Tired_]

Brick it

[u/BrianRLackey1987]

Where's John Connor when you need him?

[u/TheNotSoGreatPumpkin]

Why do the “best and brightest” insist on shitting where they eat? Businesses aren’t going to buy these shiny new AIs after all said businesses’ customers have gone broke.

[u/unfettered_logic]

It not took 200 years smh

[u/feed_me_dimes]

Break it

Break the sign

Now

[u/AnotherCasualReditor]

It’s quite interesting that through sci fi movies we know we are aware of the dangers of advanced technologies such as AI and we seem rather quite obsessed with based off the countless movies of futuristic apocalypses and yet somehow we still seem to be heading down that path right now.

AI “employees” They shouldn’t be able to advertise AI as employees because AI are not humans and therefore cannot be employees. The literal definition of an employee is a person employed for wages LMAO.

[u/Illustrious-Sweet-44]

I don't like this Black Mirror episode.

[u/lokovec]

as some french guys said

Le député Guillotin
Dans la médecine
Très expert et très malin
Fit une machine

[u/Party_Image5023]

well in the Obama years the US did stock up on them...

[u/Ghostmouse88]

Seems fine to me, it always starts in California then spreads to the rest of the country.