Re:The AI Replaces Labour Myth
by tines on Thursday July 17, 2025 @03:55PM
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Not sure I quite get the point of the article. Sure, you won't capture $100k/year/dev. But if you capture $2k/year/dev, and you replace every dev in the world... that's the goal right?
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I don't think the value stacks like that. Hiring 10 low level workers that you can pay 1/10th the salary to replace one higher level worker doesn't work.
Sure it does! Let me just hire 9 women for 1 month...
Re:The AI Replaces Labour Myth
by aerostable_slug on Thursday July 17, 2025 @04:09PM
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They're saying expectations that AI revenues will equal HR expenditures, like you can take the funds from one column to the other, are wrong-headed. That makes sense to me.
I agree, but that doesn't have to be true for investors to be salivating, is my point.
that $2k won't last long as you will never maintain a margin on a service like that
employee salaries are high because your competitors can't spawn 50000 into existence by pushing a button
competition in the industry will destroy its own margins, and then its own customer base very quickly
soon after followed by the economies of the countries they're present in
the whole thing is a capitalism self destruct button, for entire economies