- 2 hours
It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. - Tyler Durden
- Danarchy@lemmy.nzEnglish3 hours
That pitchfork is not the right kind for rabble style mobbery. You want the pitchfork with the round tines for some proper stabbins
- 17 hours
this was always part result for making people suddenly unemployed intentionally in large numbers. the oligarchs kept the “lowly plebs” in thier place by giving them enough(high income, shiny stuff) and culture war propaganda (includes copaganda/military propaganda media) to not to foment an uprising.
I’m constantly surprised and disappointed this hasn’t happened.
In France, we take to the streets for the smallest issue (or so they say), and the world mocks us. Meanwhile the gun crazy crowd in the US only ever uses their god given arms to gun down their neighbours and schoolmates. Great job!
2 hoursFrance is much smaller; USA is more comparable to the entirety of the EU.
Millions of people are protesting often, but the BBC isn’t reporting about it on the front page.
We have “national” protests every few months, millions of people around the country.
There are big problems organizing here, USA is a surveillance state and if you are an organizing party (like let’s say the Greens for one example), they are watching.
The USA so far has been “too big to fail”, but that won’t last forever
I like to show my students the clip of French firefighters protesting and how they’re making police pull back. There’s a lesson in there about teamwork and being prepared.
In France, we take to the streets for the smallest issue (or so they say), and the world mocks us.
We don’t mock you guys for that. There’s plenty other things to use for mocking the French. We’re secretly in awe of the liberal application of the guillotine in a class struggle.
The world mocks you only as standard preset punchlines. Its more upholding tradition than actually funny or real.
For rioting over small shit, I assure you you have our utmost respect.
- 1 day
Pretty sure you wouldn’t use firearms against your government if you had them either.
- 17 hours
AI job losses are massively overrepresented, much of it actually happened due to previous overhiring, those who tried to go full AI immediately got burned on it.
What if we all plan the end of the world next April 1st. We will all pretend to start race and religious riots until all the billionaires get nervous and go into their bunkers. Then we strip off our costumes and masks and start mixing concrete to pour over the bunker doors and air intake.
It’s a joke but that’s sort of what happened in the US during the CoViD lockdowns. People weren’t at work so they had free time to care about unions, racist policing, civil liberties, etc. Even if AI really could take over huge swathes of the work, there’s a fair likelihood of the people who lost their jobs turning data centers into war zones and then autonomous zones.
There are jobs popping up around me here in India where the “job” is to be a software engineer whose responsibility is to review AI-generated code as training data. It pays more than my job…
The burn-out rate is high for being an AI error catcher so I guess they need to offer a high wage.
- 20 hours
True but it really makes me want to set aside my morals when it pays 8 times what I make right now… Would make life a lot easier
- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish4 hours
would they notice if you would give false reviews? if its text form maybe you could generate lengthy reviews so that it eats more money, and makes it less likely someone throughly checks your work
- 3 hours
Huh… I wonder… I’m not sure. I think I’ll apply and see if I can pollute the well.
That’s why they are driving countries into fascism., there will be plenty of police state jobs.
Eventually they won’t even need them. Your smart fridge reported you discussing seditious conspiracy and your smart washer has noted you own a black hoodie, aka terrorist attire. Your smart vehicle has been remotely disabled, and an Amazon delivery drone has been rerouted to terminate you after its final delivery. Don’t bother trying to turn off the tracking device in your pocket, it still pings even when powered down and between Ring and Flock we can see you at all times anyway.
There still need to be people to go in and arrest them, and meat is cheaper than motors and hydraulics using resources that would otherwise remain unexploited.
Police can rid themselves of the loathsome term “peace officer” and revert to their preferred name, “slave catcher”. The violent beatings of minorities and dissidents will continue because anonymously exploding them by remote isn’t as rewarding to the ruling class as watching them suffer.
- 1 day
They aren’t peace officers, they are police officers. That means no peace outside of the exclusion zones( read: Rich enclaves)
“To serve and protect… ourselves and our masters from being held accountable by the the masses.”
- 1 day
All of that requires you have money. Which you don’t have anymore, because you don’t have a job that pays you. Unless the system changes radically, at some point enough people can’t even buy food and have only time in their hands. So what are they going to do?
- 15 hours
And if millions of people start stealing? The point is, if the scenario of AI taking away jobs and making people useless keeps happening at the rate it is happening now, our societies will collapse in some way. Unless it’s solved by other changes, fast
- Emi@ani.socialEnglish2 days
“I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to join civil protection just to get a decent meal.” -city 17 citizen
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Silicon Valley CEOs like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Peter Thiel have reported mild growth in AI-fuelled productivity, as well as massive leaps in jobless bourgeoisie rabble surrounding their estates and pounding at the gates with guillotines.
I misread “AI-fuelled productivity” as “AI-fucked productivity”
AI has already torched my creative side project I have spent hundreds of hours on to hopefully one day it replaces my miserable income. now that AI has been able to generate acceptable videos by the public. my revenue went down by 80%. and people are expecting lower prices in times of inflation
People think there are wins to come, how I see it is that we have already lost the fight.
Please point me to those people expecting wins.
They must be very misinformed or super stupid.
