>>105722784 (OP)the average person is so fucking stupid that they believe whatever lame excuse they are given as to why 700k jobs disappeared in the US this year. lol yeah chatgpt wrappers are doing all those jobs for sure nbow. if that were true, and all those jobs were eliminated with no loss in productivity, there would be increased budget to hire people for other things, but that obviously isn't the case.
i implore everyone to actually read between the lines of what is happening. no one is talking about AI in terms of all the goods and services it can create for people to buy. very few companies are hiring in order to capitalize on this new trend like what happened during any other tech boom. all the marketing talk regarding AI is about cost-cutting and downsizing. no one is excited about it, no one really wants AI products, except soulless MBAs and retards who see it as a way to get rich. that should tell you what the actual driving force behind things is: the fact that almost everyone is just flat out broke
AI simply does not matter wrt job market. if the economy was doing well and AI managed to actually legitimately replace you, then you would get hired somewhere else doing something slightly different. but really AI is just a distraction of the real issues, like some keys being dangled in front of people, an excuse given as to why everything has to suck now
>>105722784 (OP)pushing UBI is just a very kneejerk reaction to the issue
>people have no job and are poor? give people money then!we could have had UBI ages ago but it just doesn't really work very well. if you put 50% of the population on UBI then you will have created a huge division between 2 halves of the population in terms of wealth, social power and political power. it'd be a very unstable and unequal society. the smarter and saner thing to do is what we have been doing for the past 200 years or so already, which is to use the surplus wealth to give people jobs, let people start new businesses, etc.