Imagine this scenario:

  • All companies start producing mostly using only AI and firing people, because people have no use anymore
  • Joe spend most of his income on digital video games products
  • Joe get fired because he got replaced by AI now, since AIs are taking over most jobs
  • Joe has no income anymore
  • Joe doesn’t have any more money to spend on video games
  • Companies have no more profit, because people don’t have income, so people can’t spend on their AI produced products

In this scenario both lose, the company adopting AI and the worker. Am I missing something? Is there any possibility besides Universal Basic Income to keep the system running and not collapsing?

  • 3abas@lemmy.world
    1·
    29 days ago

    No, that’s twisting of reality. My vote for X didn’t help A or B as opposed to voting for A or B directly, as you want me to do.

    I don’t want either party to win, because they’re both evil. You insisting on voting for the “lesser evil” because their evil doesn’t effect you enough is throwing me under the bus, so getting the “greater evil” is on you.

      • 3abas@lemmy.world
        1·
        28 days ago

        No I’m basing it on my material condition, and Democrats are doing almost the same amount of harm to me and many others.

        You’re basing it on your material condition, where you benefit more under them, and to hell with those they run over, THe hELL With ThosE tHE SYSTEM DesTroyS, i wIlL SUPPort iT as loNg AS IT WORKs For ME!

        I have no obligation to lie down on the train tracks for you because you’re afraid of degrading your comfortable lifestyle, when you openly tell me I’m just a victim of a broken system you insist on participating in and not fixing.

        • Doomsider@lemmy.world
          11·
          28 days ago

          I am sure plenty of Democratic people don’t even know you. Pretending they are directly harming you is an emotional response.

          You aren’t speaking from knowledge and instead speaking to your feelings. There is nothing wrong with that.

          • 3abas@lemmy.world
            1·
            28 days ago

            What a stupid thing to say. Their policies directly harm me, the policies you support and dismiss as “lesser evil” directly harm me and my people. It’s material harm, and emotional too, but par for the course to dismiss that as well.

            As long as you’re not harmed, that’s the priority. I must vote blue, and if I don’t I’m to blame.

              • 3abas@lemmy.world
                1·
                28 days ago

                Their unconditional support for Israel and Biden’s genocide in Gaza for a start, they literally lost the election over it.

                But I know, brown people aren’t as important as your first world problems, so you’re gonna deflect and deny, maybe callousely ask me if I’m happier with Trump?

                • Doomsider@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  28 days ago

                  Please explain how this harms you directly as in a tort. I am interested as if you can prove actual harm you may have standing to sue.

                  I don’t want to discount your feelings because they are important and quite frankly I agree with them. I also think it is important to separate feelings from facts. Unless you can demonstrate how Democrats have personally harmed you it is just a feeling. Nothing wrong with that though.

                  • 3abas@lemmy.world
                    2·
                    27 days ago

                    For me personally, I’m Palestinian. I’ve lost literal people. While living in America, I faced increased racism under Biden that I haven’t experienced since 9/11.

                    For family I have in the US, some were arrested for protesting Biden’s illegal support for Israel, breaking the leahy law and bypassing Congress to send billions in weapons to materially fund His genocide, while lying about beheaded babies and proclaiming that he’s a proud Zionist while having reporters literally dragged out of the press room for asking questions. Your Nazi is not better than their Nazi.

                    Family and friends lost their jobs for speaking up, students were arrested and accused of antisemitism, while literal IDF soldiers were present to beat them were backed up by the police. How quickly we forget, or perhaps you never invested the time to read any articles criticizing your side.

                    Outside of my personal anecdotes, are you seriously resorting to asking me to prove personal harm? You’re proving my point that as long as you don’t know the people being harmed it’s all good. Unless you want to pretend like Obama’s drone strikes on weddings or increased police funding under Biden didn’t harm anyone?

                    I could keep listing, but you’re gonna dismiss them all and point at Trump and say “is it better now?”, completely missing the point, aren’t you?

                    Or are you just gonna continue insisting they don’t harm anyone? Because that’s just sad.