Post #1324543

2026-04-14 01:03 UTC

Within just the lifetime of the baby boomers, less than a century, we&#39;ve gone from &quot;a barely-literate factory worker can own a home and support a family&quot; to &quot;better get a college degree if you don&#39;t want to end up working at McDonald&#39;s&quot; to &quot;even a degree won&#39;t support you now, take a trade seal IDK&quot; to &quot;AI is going to replace even skilled workers and we have literally no plan for the economic dislocation that mass unemployment in a consumer economy would cause and in fact are actively working against any kind of social support that could potentially soften the blow&quot;

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@Fuzz_Ra@kind.social 2026-04-14 03:28

The worst thing is, the AI gubbins that is pushing all sorts of awful just plain doesn't work. It's regressive in every way.

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@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange 2026-04-14 05:05

@XauriEL@mastodon.nz Of course, that last one is their impossible goal, not reality. Not with the LLMs.

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@ravensrod@mstdn.social 2026-04-14 08:01

@XauriEL@mastodon.nz How long before we go to this?

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@ahltorp@mastodon.nu 2026-04-15 10:22

@XauriEL@mastodon.nz While I agree with the general sentiment, I don't get this obsession with owning a home. Why is that the baseline?

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@courtcan@mastodon.social 2026-04-19 14:18

@XauriEL@mastodon.nz We are in deep, deep shit, and the majority of the working population isn't even aware of it.

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@cbzo@mastodon.green 2026-04-20 16:59

@XauriEL@mastodon.nz @harold@mastodon.social Yup. My parents were homeowners, I am renting and my children will be sub-renting. I am more educated than my parents and my children will be more educated than me. Living in Europe, so at least no debt for my children’s education.

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