@aescling @coriander execs do not want to have to do everything themselves, they just want to be able to hire unskilled workers to do tasks which formerly required skilled workers, because it means the workers lose their bargaining powrr

@Lady @coriander hmm

@aescling @coriander the whole idea behind Microsoft Copilot is to make work which happens on a computer accessible to people without training or experience, so companies can hire people without training or experience

it’s being used to eliminate some positions entirely, sure (get rid of secretary who writes your emails by having computer write your emails), but no CEO wants you to just be able to type “make money” into a computer and get money, because that weakens their own position

they want making money to be restricted to people like themselves, who have the resources to employ others in menial tasks, while preventing the people engaged in those tasks from having any connection with the value created by their labour

@aescling @coriander (the companies who build AI might be fine with you typing “make money” and getting money so long as they get a cut, but it’s important to recognize that even in this case “typing ‘make money’” is just the menial task you are being employed to do)

@aescling @coriander tl;dr capitalism doesn’t optimize for unemployment, it optimizes for employing the most people in the least fulfilling way possible