Quote: Making jobs obsolete isn't actually bad, but...
A Youtube Comment on The New Dirty Secrets of Food Marketing - YouTube by @LoveOlsson98 in ~April 2024
What's so annoying about AI is that making jobs obsolete isn't actually a bad thing in itself, the real issue is that all the profits will be passed on to the owners instead of literally anyone else. I'd be ecstatic about, let's say, 30% of all jobs being made obsolete if that meant we could all just work 30% less, keep everyone employed and still economically sound with prices also dropping by 30%. But instead we're just gonna make the richest even richer and throw more people into desperate poverty.
Just feels like every technological advancement takes us closer to a potential Star Trek-esque future utopia but we at every turn instead do our best to get to some cyberpunk dystopia as fast as possible.