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Board Economics
Re: Will AI taking people jobs and make the world worse?
by
Fortify
on 10/10/2024, 20:18:05 UTC
I saw a video on my social media there's a restaurant that using AI and almost 100% automated, I thought it's a new video, but actually it has been around for six months.

If this trend keep continue, what the world would be? many people will become unemployed and not all people can become engineers. Middle class people will become poor as they don't get decent jobs, will we see a big revolution that the poor to clash against the rich?

I'm not sure if this happen in your country or not, but in my country most companies don't want to make their employees become permanent workers anymore, they only want contract workers because the companies don't have to give compensation to fired contract workers.

I understand that permanent workers are just a "myth", but if the companies suffer bad financial and want to reduce the employees, they would fire the contract workers first, so permanent workers are safer.

If we lived in a more perfect world the theory goes that AI and advancing automation technology would free up people to pursue more leisure time. However we live in an often cutthroat capitalist society, which will need to move towards some other system that could provide a universal income before that comes true. Capitalism would still exist, however there could be a redistribution of wealth because the billionaires will often sit on their money for a lifetime when it could be spent helping millions of other people. Giving people a base line of comfort and allowing them to pursue work if they wanted to earn beyond that seems like the ideal world, but it strays very close to communism which is an utter disaster.