Re:Managed by Bots: surveillance of gig economy workers
by pc86 on Monday December 13, 2021 @03:34PM
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1. I struggle not to just respond "So?" to this one as well. Society progressing is the goal, isn't it? There will always be people in poverty. Poverty caused by AI isn't worse than poverty caused by industrial or agricultural automation, and it isn't worse than poverty caused by the fact you're born in a family of serfs instead of lords.
2. It will all settle down eventually, it always does. The poorest today have access to more food, education, and (usually) healthcare than even the rich just a few centuries ago. Being knocked to steerage of a quickly rising ship isn't a death sentence.
3 (and 4). Isn't this just more of the same compared to the industrial revolution? The cotton gin certainly shifted the power struggle more toward capital but I don't think anyone today would argue we should be processing all our textiles by hand.
2. It will all settle down eventually, it always does. The poorest today have access to more food, education, and (usually) healthcare than even the rich just a few centuries ago. Being knocked to steerage of a quickly rising ship isn't a death sentence.
3 (and 4). Isn't this just more of the same compared to the industrial revolution? The cotton gin certainly shifted the power struggle more toward capital but I don't think anyone today would argue we should be processing all our textiles by hand.