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Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:19:57 -0800
marlon from private IP, post #12942731
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Top AI Investor Says Goal Is to Crash Human Wages
https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-investor-goal-crash-human-wages
Top AI Investor Says Goal Is to Crash Human Wages
What a noble vision.
Justin Sullivan via Getty / Futurism
Waging War
Marc Andreessen, cofounder of the massive venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz — which has its fingers in pretty much every pie in tech — has revealed
an eyebrow-raising detail in his "techno-optimist" vision of the future.
In a recent tweet, the American billionaire investor casually proclaimed that AI must "crash" everyone's wages before it can deliver us an economic utopia —
one that'll definitely happen, and certainly not create a permanent underclass of have-nots.
"A world in which human wages crash from AI — logically, necessarily — is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods
and services crash to near zero," Andreessen wrote. "Consumer cornucopia. Everything you need and want for pennies."
So fret not, lowly laborer: you may be destined for financial ruin, but paradise is right around the corner. Pinky promise.
Suck It Up
Andreessen's tweet is a revealing example of the ruthless economic logic that underlies tech moguls' utopic visions of the future, in which progress is a
foregone conclusion, rendering everyone's economic suffering in the interim merely a means to an end. Like overzealous fitness instructors, they always choose
to emphasize the need for pain to achieve anything.
The author of "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto," Andreessen also embodies how these brutal economic paradigm shifts are dressed up in benign rhetoric. AI-induced
wage collapse is a consequence that happens "logically" and "necessarily," according to the billionaire.
Somehow, none of these AI evangelists' "optimistic" visions involve immediately improving people's lives in a meaningful way, or foreground measures to mitigate
the tech's massively disruptive potential to the job market, except perhaps with broad gestures to a universal basic income — an idea that Andreessen, ever
the unapologetic capitalist, happens to hate. (Per his manifesto, it would turn us all into "zoo animals.")
Bow Down
Above all, many of these ultra-rich tech types like Andreessen can't help publicly fantasizing about punishing the poor.
Larry Ellison for instance, cofounder of the software outfit Oracle, drooled about how AI would supercharge the surveillance state, ensuring that "citizens will
be on their best behavior."
When asked in an interview about AI killing creative jobs, OpenAI's former chief technology officer Mira Murati glibly suggested that those jobs "shouldn't have
been there in the first place."
Andreessen seems to justify his disdain towards workers by claiming that many of them are "America-hating communists" who are infiltrating his companies and
destroying them from the inside out.
With such seething contempt towards their employees, it makes sense why all the richest people in the world are suddenly throwing ungodly amounts of money at
technology to automate the jobs of the rank and file.
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:46:56 -0800
whiteguyinchina from private IP
Reply #15339258
Obviously
Squeeze out the middle managers, just have proles and alphas
Universal income and professional sports is just another way to keep the gammas satisfied while they get sterilized
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:23:24 -0800
marlon from private IP
Reply #10497604
too many bullshit jobs out there, but i had an old boss say a bank rec could be done w/ a push of a button, & that my
job as accountant could be automated w/ software. he said all this w/ his girlfriends & his boss in the room, it was just being a classic bully & showing me
up.
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:14:56 -0800
whiteguyinchina from private IP
Reply #12548606
Maybe but what are jobs for if not to keep people employed
Efficiency just means firing people and increasing profits for owners
Now may be a good time to re read capital
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 09:24:51 -0800
marlon from private IP
Reply #14221850
90% of being employed is sucking off the boss, 10% is doing work. Women do the hypergamy thing, as they love power &
status, so they'll always have job security. AI will do most damage to guys like me.
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