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Meta CTO says employees should use AI productivity gains to do more work, calls request for extra days off "very dumb" (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 16 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

AI is the latest gimmick to avoid paying people a fair share of the profits. Hoarding profits is the only way anyone can afford to make $100 million before age 30 or be a billionaire by age 40. There is no other way to do it.

Pre-1860s: Have slaves do the work, to avoid paying fair wages

1860s-1920s: Have Chinese and low-wage immigrants do the work, to avoid paying fair wages

1930s: Plenty of unemployed, so no need to pay fair wages

1940s: War

1945-1960s: Lets try paying fair wages

1970s-early 2020s: That sucked! Offshore to Asia and Latin America and hire low wage foreigners, to avoid paying fair wages.

mid-2020s: Replace the humans with AI, to avoid paying fair wages

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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago

    Yup. It's why I don't hate AI itself, but the people behind creating and pushing it. The way to get tons of funding for AI was to push it on the world as the new way to avoid paying employees fairly or at all. It's just more money, power, and control for the few. Mostly the same few who already have lots of those things.

    I understand that AI isn't human, but hating it seems sort of like hating a slave for taking your job instead of hating the slave owner or hating a knife for stabbing you instead of the guy holding the less stabby end of it.

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