These posers are not businessmen who understand society. They are tech nerds without much general knowledge. They should quit making these unreal pronouncements. If I win the 40 billion powerball does that automatically make me a visionary with an eye to the future?
AI is the latest gimmick to avoid paying people a fair share of the profits. Hoarding profits is the only way anyone can afford to make $100 million before age 30 or be a billionaire by age 40. There is no other way to do it.
Pre-1860s: Have slaves do the work, to avoid paying fair wages
1860s-1920s: Have Chinese and low-wage immigrants do the work, to avoid paying fair wages
1930s: Plenty of unemployed, so no need to pay fair wages
1940s: War
1945-1960s: Lets try paying fair wages
1970s-early 2020s: That sucked! Offshore to Asia and Latin America and hire low wage foreigners, to avoid paying fair wages.
mid-2020s: Replace the humans with AI, to avoid paying fair wages
1940s to 1960s. They weren’t paying fair wages out of the goodness of their hearts.
So many people died in the war that they didn’t have a big pool of desperate workers. So the workers had more leverage. I.e. if you don’t hire someone then there’s no one else to do it.
But population has exploded again, and now there are more desperate people who are willing to undercut each other.
The black plague reduced the work force so much that it is credited with helping create the middle class.
Also, there were all these communist revolutions happening and they were afraid it could happen here.
This is one thing I like about the increasing popularity of communism memes. Make them fear revolution or make them fear Luigi. I don’t care which. Things improve when they fear the many.
Yup. It’s why I don’t hate AI itself, but the people behind creating and pushing it. The way to get tons of funding for AI was to push it on the world as the new way to avoid paying employees fairly or at all. It’s just more money, power, and control for the few. Mostly the same few who already have lots of those things.
I understand that AI isn’t human, but hating it seems sort of like hating a slave for taking your job instead of hating the slave owner or hating a knife for stabbing you instead of the guy holding the less stabby end of it.
Ah, but the employees will be paid more then… Right…?
Would never expect anything less from a US company.
Would never expect anything less from a
UScompany.I do not disagree with you, but keep in mind that most countries on the planet has up to several workers rights written into law, with the US as the only exception in the western world. So at least from the outside looking in, if company was not mentioned, I’d assume a US company immediately.
While it’s true the US is the worst example in the western world, with generally speaking no workers’ rights, in my experience (in the EU) workers’ rights have steadily eroded over at least the last decade.
Always online expectations, zero hour contracts, expectations of unpaid overtime, gig economy, salaries “under the table”, food vouchers (instead of pay in order to avoid taxes) have become practically the norm where I come from. Recently shipping workers from overseas (mostly India and Uzbekistan) and paying them half a minimum wage (illegally ofc) has become quite popular too.
So yeah, while there are some workers protections written in the law, in practice they seem to matter less and less.
You shouldn’t use that productivity to benefit YOU! You should use it to benefit ME!
…he types as he leaves for a 2-week vacation
It’s not vacation! He’s working from his yacht, with his family (fortunately they’ve got a separate suite and he only needs to see them for dinner). There’s upwards of 2 meetings a day and the helicopter rides back to the lunches with vendors take up so much time.
lol
This has nothing to do with fucking AI. This is everything to do with fucking people and greedy capitalism.
AI is the new African slave
confused stare
What do you think "ai’ is?
[avarice intensifies]
work for the evil misery machine
be surprised to get caught in the evil misery machine
It’s proper Leopards Ate My Face shit!
Meta employees not unionizing at this point is their own fault. Like I feel for you, this situation is shit and its getting worse, but thats the thing, it has only ever gotten worse. Do something about it, fight for your rights, fight for the people you are harming with the work you submit to, fight for a future that isn’t dogshit run by a literal lizard person.
Your complaints don’t mean shit to the current govt, you need to take your fate into your own hands. Meta dies without you, you hold the power. Do you think the dude who made that company to creep on women really has the skills and ability to do your work?
This goes for all tech. Stop complaining about your work if you aren’t going to do anything about it. You are probably the only ones capable of saving enough money to survive a job loss in this country right now, stop licking boots and complaining about the flavor.
And to think, when I graduated from Parsons in 2016, I actually tried to apply for a job at Facebook…
Turns out I was already blacklisted in 2015 for a paper I published at SIGGRAPH calling their asses out.
Oops!
I walked up to their table at the Parsons career fair, and the two recruiters just looked at me and just said “no“. Like they just fucking knew who I was by sight.
LO to the fucking L
Meta employees in 2026 should be killed tbh.
Like it’s that easy to find a job in the USA nowadays.
Man, folks are downvoting you like this isn’t the primary way the capitalism we’re all so sick of victimizes us.
True, but if you have Meta listed in ur CV I am pretty sure you will still quickly find new employment
Idk if I interviewed an ex meta guy I’d be wondering how much of my data did he sell, or was he in the department responsible for ignoring csam?
I’m a staff engineer and routinely review resumes and conduct interviews. If you have Facebook on your resume as a position, especially any time in the last couple of years, it’s likely going to result in a No from me, dawg.
You’re a bad staff engineer then if your only criterion is that.
They didn’t say that was their only one tho.
Yeah these people aren’t choosing between homelessness and meta, they’re choosing making the most money vs slightly less money
You can be unemployed. Its California; the weather’s fine and there’s places to park.
‘It was do genocide at the kiddie porn factory or be unemployed’ just makes them even more disgusting.
Wow, I have never seen somebody express that they have never been in a truly existentially or financially dire situation so clearly as you did just there.
Or such abject ignorance. People need safe places to live. People need food. People need water. Facebook employs people around the world. And on and on.
I’ve been homeless. If the only way for you to live is to keep taking and ruining the lives of others, you are literally the kind of fucking monster I grew up reading stories about brave heroes killing.
‘The people who murder you are the hero’ is literally what we teach children, it’s like the first morality you learn besides ‘share’.
You can be unemployed.
You also could have family to care for.
A false dichotomy:
Work at facebook or be unable to care for family.
Yeah, there are other jobs you could do. They just probably won’t pay as much as Facebook. But if you are working for one of these companies it is largely by choice. Not by necessity.
It was another guy who proposed unemployment as an alternative.
I merely commented, that unemployment is not for everyone.
By making victims of other peoples children. Parents. Loved ones. Hell yeah. Predators gotta predate.
If the way you sustain your family is by taking more and more victims, they should not exist.
You can also just rot to death under a bridge. I guess that’s equally valid to some people.
