Post #3686560

2026-07-02 00:12 UTC

Those companies are not trying to make a profit they are trying to make a cheap workforce for the rich that wont unionise or expect basic human rights.

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@0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-02 03:37

I’m a little more cynical. I think the AI companies are making a fortune selling the fiction that human workers can be replaced. Megacorps invest for the short-term gains (wage suppression via layoffs that are spun to be a positive thing) and avoids short-term losses (holdouts may lose investors because AI is hip).

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@Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-02 00:38

My concern is a mass depopulation when there are sufficient robo-slaves to take up the slack of maintaining society and producing technological progress. Although it’ll likely be temporary. I’m fairly sure humans when digitized will grow in number or similarly when we start space exploration and colonization in earnest. Without FTL some faction could always just go somewhere else if they want to do society another way.

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