• dudebro@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No we don’t. They can do something else.

    It’s called the free market, baby.

    Blue collar workers have been finding new ways to make money ever since the industrial revolution. Don’t be a Luddite.

    If these people still want to make art, nobody is stopping them. They just have to get a real job too, like everyone else.

    It’s okay. I think they can survive and still lead a higher quality of life than the vast majority of people on the planet.

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      1 year ago

      That is one way to view it. However due to everyone, in including blue collar workers, having their lively hoods threatened by AI we need to ask the question if were okay, as a society, for there to be more jobs eliminated than created. Are we okay with the current ways and (some would say the illusion of) the free market controlling everything? Are we okay with letting people suffer needlessly? Would you be okay with looking into the eyes of someone you know and saying “too bad that’s the free market baby!” Because it’s starting with the arts but it’s not stopping there. It’s only a matter of time before it will not need many warm bodies to do things. The knowledge works are next on the list and it won’t be long after that where manual labors will be impacted. This is all WAY before we even hit AGI.

      I’m not saying that AI taking jobs is a bad thing. I think it is an amazing thing but we need to start embracing it as an opportunity for things to be more Star Trek and less dystopian hellscape. That means changing this mindset that a lot of us have and start asking ourselves how do we want the world to look in 100 or even 500 years from now.

      HTH

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      They just have to get a real job too, like everyone else.

      Would you mind expanding on what a “real” vs “fake” job is? I disagree with the premise entirely but i am not taking you with a loaded question, i am honestly curious about what that means to you (and by extension what other people who use that term might mean)

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        1 year ago

        Jobs that are necessary for the survival of our species.

        Jobs that people don’t do for fun. They do it because it needs to get done.

        People will still act even if they don’t get paid for it. Will they, deliver food just for the fun of it? No, I didn’t think so.

    • wuddupdude@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      The free market kind of sucks at making art and I think it’s okay and good for the government to subsidize it.