Post by PhillyJim76 on Oct 25, 2024 7:15:12 GMT -5
I understand the sentiment behind “AI is coming for our jobs,” but I just can’t get mad about it. People were up in arms about electronic tolling putting toll booth operators out of work; there was some big protest in NYC about how putting self-service buttons in elevators was gonna cut 10,000 jobs, etc. Life is objectively better because of technological advancements that at the time do have the unfortunate side effect of putting people out of work. I guess there’s a line at some point where too much automation just means there aren’t enough jobs. But I remain generally in favor of innovations that improve society. And if the next iteration of that is that the longshoremen are replaced by robots and our ports are 100x more efficient, fuck em.
right but we aren’t creating other jobs to offset the jobs we are taking away, which pushes more and more people into government handouts. You and I gain nothing from making the ports more efficient.
