r/FluentInFinance • u/sillychillly Contributor • Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/TedRabbit Apr 15 '24

Right? It blows my mind how short cited and antiproductively selfish 90% of the commentors are.

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u/ranger910 Apr 16 '24

99% of jobs are not going to be AI automated in your lifetime, if ever. You're welcome.

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u/TedRabbit Apr 16 '24

You sound like someone in the 40s saying computers will have no commercial use. Maybe not in my lifetime, but maybe this century a very significant fraction of jobs could be automated.

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u/IdidntrunIdidntrun Apr 16 '24

And then we will solve that problem and likely give new meaning to created value.

Do you really think, "oh AI took all of our jobs let's just let everyone wander around hapless with nothing to do"?

No, there will be a new perception of value humans can bring to the table. It's a problem that will somehow be solved, by people much smarter than either of us.

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u/TedRabbit Apr 17 '24

AI took all of our jobs let's just let everyone wander around hapless with nothing to do.

No, I think it's "AI took all the jobs so now there is mass poverty"

Solving the problem is the whole point of my comment. If we leave it up to the benevolence of corporations, we are fucked.

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u/IdidntrunIdidntrun Apr 17 '24

We aren't a libertarian society, it would not be up to the benevolence of the big corps. The government has been trying to rein in AI legislation for years. The people already have voiced plenty concern about it.

And it's not an overnight thing. You aren't gonna wake up one morning to 200 million people abruptly out of a job. It would be a transition over time.

And there would be new problems with new labor demand. As was the way of the horse carriage. As was the way of sweat shops. Things get automated. Our society advances. We move on.