We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit

Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by ben_w on Friday April 17, 2026 @06:02AM (#47804247)

To extend on what Jensson wrote:

A union has the power to organise one thing, to withdraw labour. In the industrial era, the threat of all the workers not showing up was a threat to end a business.

If AI does what is promised, to replace labour, then a threat to withdraw labour is only threatening the owners with a good time.

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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by adrianN on Friday April 17, 2026 @11:42PM (#47812951)

Yeah, the swing riots ultimately did not lead to better working conditions

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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by ben_w on Saturday April 18, 2026 @03:21AM (#47813868)

Riots are very different to trade unions in the same way that a civil war is different from an electoral democracy.

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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by adrianN on Saturday April 18, 2026 @06:01AM (#47814619)

Well, if riots don’t help, I don’t think peaceful strikes work better.

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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by ben_w on Saturday April 18, 2026 @09:18AM (#47815692)

Yes? I'm saying unions, whose power is strikes, cannot possibly work because the strikers have zero power in the circumstance "we have decided to make you all redundant".

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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by adrianN on Saturday April 18, 2026 @12:59PM (#47817440)

And I’m providing further evidence for your claim.

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