Maybe this is why the ruling classes, at least in the US where I live, are removing the last vestiges of health care; let the masses die, they won't be needed when AI makes everything. Huh, I think they are missing something here.
On top of that, the unemployed will have a much harder time finding work (if they can) because millions of jobs will be permanently eliminated. I read an article just yesterday that said entry level management jobs will disappear because AI can do them better. So where do the middle and high management jobs get people moving up? 🤔
Programmers are replaced by general purpose AIs now, like bookkeepers and secretaries were when PCs first started going into offices. They can churn out code faster than the best human programmers.
Bookkeepers are long gone, and now AIs, not accountants, can prepare financial, inventory, operations, and most of the other management reports.
Sales and marketing copy is mostly written by AIs based on real time tracking of their customers, and the all important internet data (clicks, scrolls, return visits, even the time on each webpage are all recorded and analyzed).
Specialist AIs already read x-rays and other diagnostics faster and more accurately than even experienced doctors.
And AIs are owned, not hired so they can't just quit. They don't get a salary so they don't pay taxes, they don't rent apartments, they don't eat, they don't want offices. A remote worker with AI assistance can be anywhere and that destroys the city's local tax base, unlike the first industrial revolution that brought people to the city, increasing the tax base.
Well. I actually did that "Learn to code" thing when I was young. It worked pretty well when PCs were still new, roughly 1980 through 2000 (pre internet, pre Y2K).
By the time people started recommending that little bit of career advice, it was already obsolete. Programmers from abroad on work visas (essentially indentured programmers ) became common practice.
But I imagine a century ago "Learn to read and write" was pretty good career advice then too.
Maybe this is why the ruling classes, at least in the US where I live, are removing the last vestiges of health care; let the masses die, they won't be needed when AI makes everything. Huh, I think they are missing something here.
On top of that, the unemployed will have a much harder time finding work (if they can) because millions of jobs will be permanently eliminated. I read an article just yesterday that said entry level management jobs will disappear because AI can do them better. So where do the middle and high management jobs get people moving up? 🤔
Programmers are replaced by general purpose AIs now, like bookkeepers and secretaries were when PCs first started going into offices. They can churn out code faster than the best human programmers.
Bookkeepers are long gone, and now AIs, not accountants, can prepare financial, inventory, operations, and most of the other management reports.
Sales and marketing copy is mostly written by AIs based on real time tracking of their customers, and the all important internet data (clicks, scrolls, return visits, even the time on each webpage are all recorded and analyzed).
Specialist AIs already read x-rays and other diagnostics faster and more accurately than even experienced doctors.
And AIs are owned, not hired so they can't just quit. They don't get a salary so they don't pay taxes, they don't rent apartments, they don't eat, they don't want offices. A remote worker with AI assistance can be anywhere and that destroys the city's local tax base, unlike the first industrial revolution that brought people to the city, increasing the tax base.
Wasn't long ago that "learn to code" was the default answer to disappearing jobs
Well. I actually did that "Learn to code" thing when I was young. It worked pretty well when PCs were still new, roughly 1980 through 2000 (pre internet, pre Y2K).
By the time people started recommending that little bit of career advice, it was already obsolete. Programmers from abroad on work visas (essentially indentured programmers ) became common practice.
But I imagine a century ago "Learn to read and write" was pretty good career advice then too.
Next up, maybe, " Learn to subsistence farm" ?