10% of earners do 90% of the spending. I don’t think AI will be “good” but hear me out…
I work in a tech adjacent industry, and I make an effort to do some agitprop whenever I can shoehorn it into a conversation.
I usually mention the people working in the fields, harvesting fruits as an example. Waking up at 4am, the child tagging along with their parents to pick strawberries before going to school, making less than a dollar per bushel picked. These people work harder than anyone “works” in the tech industry, yet the disparity in pay is sinister.
I had a coworker argue that he “deserved” his position in society because he was smarter than the people picking berries.
No amount of arguing could change his mind, or any subtle references I made to him being incompetent and not making any contributions in the two years he was employed at the company.
Most tech workers I interact with are like this, where they spew liberal garbage out of their mouths but turn into hitler when you agitate any of their positions on things. I could see a point in time where these hitlerites are laid off due to “AI” and maybe, just maybe, they gain any form of class consciousness or solidarity. Probably not…
Yeah, tech workers are in a similar position as many “professionals” (lawyers, engineers, etc) where they make enough money that their material conditions are quite good and job security is trivial. This will change as they get proletarianized; if it’s not AI, it’ll be something else, because tech companies have been desperate to lower tech salaries since at least the 2000s.
10% of earners do 90% of the spending. I don’t think AI will be “good” but hear me out…
I work in a tech adjacent industry, and I make an effort to do some agitprop whenever I can shoehorn it into a conversation.
I usually mention the people working in the fields, harvesting fruits as an example. Waking up at 4am, the child tagging along with their parents to pick strawberries before going to school, making less than a dollar per bushel picked. These people work harder than anyone “works” in the tech industry, yet the disparity in pay is sinister.
I had a coworker argue that he “deserved” his position in society because he was smarter than the people picking berries.
No amount of arguing could change his mind, or any subtle references I made to him being incompetent and not making any contributions in the two years he was employed at the company.
Most tech workers I interact with are like this, where they spew liberal garbage out of their mouths but turn into hitler when you agitate any of their positions on things. I could see a point in time where these hitlerites are laid off due to “AI” and maybe, just maybe, they gain any form of class consciousness or solidarity. Probably not…
Yeah, tech workers are in a similar position as many “professionals” (lawyers, engineers, etc) where they make enough money that their material conditions are quite good and job security is trivial. This will change as they get proletarianized; if it’s not AI, it’ll be something else, because tech companies have been desperate to lower tech salaries since at least the 2000s.