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   183231bcb@transfem.social's status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 04:44:39 JST 183231bcb

   Capitalists in the 1880s: These new "machines" mean we don't have to pay humans to work anymore! Think of all the cost-savings!
   
   Machines in the 1880s: Actually require humans to operate.
   
   Capitalists in the 1900s: These new machines mean we don't have to pay humans to work anymore! Think of all the cost-savings!
   
   Machines in the 1900s: Actually require humans to operate.
   
   Capitalists in the 1920s: These new machines mean we don't have to pay humans to work anymore! Think of all the cost-savings!
   
   Machines in the 1920s: Actually require humans to operate.
   
   Capitalists in the 1940s: These new machines mean we don't have to pay humans to work anymore! Think of all the cost-savings!
   
   Machines in the 1940s: Actually require humans to operate.
   
   Capitalists in the 1960s: These new machines mean we don't have to pay humans to work anymore! Think of all the cost-savings!
   
   Machines in the 1960s: Actually require humans to operate.
   
   Capitalists in the 1980s: These new machines mean we don't have to pay humans to work anymore! Think of all the cost-savings!
   
   Machines in the 1980s: Actually require humans to operate.
   
   Capitalists in the 2000s: These new machines mean we don't have to pay humans to work anymore! Think of all the cost-savings!
   
   Machines in the 2000s: Actually require humans to operate.
   
   Capitalists in the 2020s: This new "AI" means we don't have to pay humans to work anymore! Think of all the cost-savings!
   
   AI in the 2020s: Actually require humans to do most of the work.
   
   Fediverse in the 2020s: AI is a fad! Any day now the CEOs will learn that replacing human workers with machines doesn't actually work and conclude they have to pay humans!
   
   #AI #FediMeta

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     183231bcb@transfem.social's status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 04:44:35 JST 183231bcb

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     • Neia

     @neia@fedi.ikeran.org We have a clause in the U.S. Constitution that was written based on the belief that human workers would no longer be needed to make clothes because of the cotton gin.
     
     More to the point, "companies fire a lot of workers because the CEO doesn't realize the workers actually do something important that can't be replaced by machines" has been a consistent occurrence for as long as companies existed.
     
     Corporations in the 1900s fired people because they thought machines made people obsolete.
     Corporations in the 1920s fired people because they thought machines made people obsolete.
     Corporations in the 1940s fired people because they thought machines made people obsolete.
     Corporations in the 1960s fired people because they thought machines made people obsolete.
     Corporations in the 1980s fired people because they thought machines made people obsolete.
     Corporations in the 2000s fired people because they thought machines made people obsolete.
     
     The fact that they've been wrong every time hasn't deterred them, because CEOs do not learn.

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     Neia (neia@fedi.ikeran.org)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 04:44:36 JST Neia

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     @183231bcb@transfem.social Did shirt factories fire a ton of people because of the cotton gin?

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     Neia (neia@fedi.ikeran.org)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 04:44:38 JST Neia

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     @183231bcb@transfem.social I think the complaint right now is that AI is a machine that's marketed as having much greater capabilities than it actually has, like if a cotton gin were touted as making clothes for you. And it's being used as an excuse to fire people and reduce wages.

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     183231bcb@transfem.social's status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 04:44:38 JST 183231bcb

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     • Neia

     @neia@fedi.ikeran.org The cotton gin was marketed as having capabilities far beyond what it actually had, and touted as a replacement for human labor that it couldn't actually replace. None of this is new.

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