Re:Firms that adopt AI grow headcount 10% over the two years...
by realusername on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @06:12AM
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> That is not what historical record shows
It's not the first industrial revolution, we've been in a good dozen of them now and absolutely none have resulted in large unemployment.
The only large unemployment we've experienced until now were linked to economic crisis which had nothing to do with industrial revolutions
Re:Firms that adopt AI grow headcount 10% over the two years...
by protocolture on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @06:35PM
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>No, they are mostly right wing capitalists. LLM is not a left wing project. UBI is something they talked about, but super hard to believe it is anything but a way to shut up critics.
The proponents of the claim not the proponents of LLMs.
No, they are mostly right wing capitalists. LLM is not a left wing project. UBI is something they talked about, but super hard to believe it is anything but a way to shut up critics.
> The claim is and always has been that automation increases net jobs.
That was definitely not the common claim last 4 years.
> There's never been an automation revolution that worked otherwise.
That is not what historical record shows. In the short term, larger unemployment are to be expected. Over long term, it evens out.