• Photonic@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Nowhere does he or the article mention a country and “Gen Z” sounds like a pretty broad term, don’t you think? There are more places in the world besides the US.

    And anyway, I’m not talking to him, I’m talking to you. And since AI exists outside the US as much as it does in the US, what I said applies to the entire world.

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      2 days ago

      Okay, that’s great for everyone outside the US who aren’t going to be losing their jobs to AI.

      Not sure if that’s much of a consolation to the literally millions of people in the US who are losing their jobs, or unable to even enter into the workforce.

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        2 days ago

        No need to be so fatalistic. They can still do the more meaningful jobs where they work for people instead of a company.

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          2 days ago

          And what are those people going to pay them with after everyone loses their jobs and small businesses are pushed out of the market taken over by corporate capture?

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            2 days ago

            With money, like they did before, and before that, and before that… Didn’t I ask you to stop being so fatalistic?

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              2 days ago

              Sorry, it’s hard not to be fatalistic when you’re living in the United States right now. Believe me, I would love to live anywhere else.

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                2 days ago

                I get what you’re saying and I sympathise, really, but I think even the 0.01% need a functioning economy to push their products to.

                That being said, a lot of career paths may have closed, but new ones will arise. Like before the Industrial Revolution fabrics used to be woven by people, then came machines and factories that killed those jobs. Then we got cars and at first they were built by people, but now 90% of them is made by machines. Calculations also used to be done by hand as well, but now we have computers etc.