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“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If the workforce democratically decides to keep people employed whose job can be done cheaper by AI, that company will not survive in the long term.
So either we as a society decide to artificially keep people in jobs that aren't needed anymore, or we have to give the labor cost savings to the people instead of the owners.

Both is not possible under a Capitalist system, so that will have to go.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

labor cost savings to the people instead of the owners.

This is the way.

Profit sharing should be a part of our laws.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Good thing our politicians that vote for us are all bought out by corporations who don't want shit like that to pass

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Taxes are essentially profit sharing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

No.

Taxes pay for the infrastructure that companies rely on to operate.

Taxes don't reward the workers for their contribution to the companies bottom line.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You have a point, if a democratic workforce votes to increase profit instead of investing in workforce, they will not survive.

I am thinking it would work more like a non-profit, due to all the money made would be used in reinvesting in the company and paying workers.

Aren't some companies artificially kept up or is it manipulation of the market?

I think the capitalist system is already dead, you need markets for capitalist system.

Technofeudalism: Explaining to Slavoj Zizek why I think capitalism has evolved into something worse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghx0sq_gXK4

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