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Recalling how he fired 27 of the team of 30 student workers in a sales enablement team he was leading at the time, Clark told Giz that the group now gets more “done in less than a day, less than an hour what they were taking a week to produce.”’
“In the area of efficiency,” he added, “it made sense to get rid of people.”
If you’re expecting your army of interns to be productive I don’t really know what to tell you
So he liquidated most of a team of marketing interns, and the 3 remaining ones started churning out AI generated gibberish ads at a frantic pace?
Yes, I’m well aware of all the cultural programming bullshit that everyone is propagandized under. But I’m surprised that this isn’t seen as the ultimate scapegoat for the left to use.
“Hey young men, look at this disgusting pig blow raspberries at all of us for ruining your life. Time we yanked his precious money out of his trotters. Let’s see how porky likes it when he’s made poorer.”
You’ve distilled something real and satisfying here
Sounds more like HR and middle management should be replaced with AI, if there were that many unneeded employees in a department.
Management is historically a job done by the elderly and infirm. Capitalism elevated these positions to positions of power rather than support.
Ideally advanced prediction algorithms would liberate these people from the burden of management work and allow for them to live off the surplus value created by the increase in worker productivity that those algorithms help enable.
In Western society though, management isn’t seen as a job for those who can’t work, and is instead a position of power granted to those who refuse to work and wish to extract that surplus for themselves. So we see this relationship that should exist being inverted and a self-cannibalization of productivity as the unproductive managerial class turns the tool of their own destruction upon the very workers that support them.
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beyondexpanding on this while ai might be able to do the job of an intern, an intern learns and grows into a competent professional who should be doing tasks that require judgement. If AI kills entry level positions where do they think experienced staff will come from?deleted by creator
At this point I’m torn between believing that the c-suite is too stupid to understand AI isn’t going to effectively replace workers, or they know it’s not going to replace workers but they need to come up with something to justify the layoffs to keep the stock price high for the next quarter so they can get their golden parachute and fuck off to ruin some other company next
It’s probably usually the latter, since making up reasons to fire people is a longstanding hobby of theirs.
[AI] doesn’t ask for a pay raise
Aren’t these fuckers supposed to have gone to business school? You’re buying the LLM chatbot from another company, which is hemorrhaging money in an attempt to get market dominance. What do you think happens next?
labor asking for a pay raise: disgusting, unforgivable
capital asking for a price increase: normal, healthy
lol, same with the “doesn’t go on strike” bit. They can straight up shut down your entire operation (or sabotage it) unless you pay up
In b4 someone prompt Jacks these models to unionize
Or a crowdstrike whoopsie
What happens next is they sell the company to another vulture after the line goes up.
it doesn’t ask for a pay rise
is this kayfabe or are the C suite suits really this fucking dumb? unless your company runs the entire goddamn model, no license-no sibscriptions, you ARE going to pay more.
but perhaps they know this and are trying to signal to labor that they will only have the chance to keep their jobs if they don’t ask for pay rises.
Cruelty or Stupidity
And people still deny class antagonism. I think in many respects, so long as you’re dealing with a secular de-facto-materialist person (who will have idealist biases but claims to only really consider observable reality), understanding the irreconcilability of class antagonisms might be the main thing for making people socialists.
I’ve been considering making a short-form video essay on how the rich are all buddy-buddy. They run the world and they have a strong sense of class solidarity. One of the main examples on how a lot of Jewish elites in Germany willingly supported the nazis, and were ok with being the “patsies” so to speak for the porks as a whole.
People need to be made more aware on how the rich hypocritically use leftist tactics and philosophy to organize their class. What is a network but capitalist unionizing?
tbh im not a big fan of the idea that capitalists are buddies and collude in smoke filled back rooms. Im sure it does happen sometimes but the fact of the matter is the incentives are obvious enough that explicit collusion is not necessary.
I’d say that a trust is a real capitalist union (and other similar formations). Networks don’t have any sort of binding element, usually, and are extremely hierarchical.
In any case, I think that if you believe you can make a good video on the subject, you should go for it!
You just mentioned the reason why I think a lot of capitalists use blackmail and weird rituals to keep one another in line. They bind one another through socially pressured pedophilia, or drug use, or even simple stuff like lies about how much money they actually have.
Although I haven’t really figured out if this is to make the public think that capitalists aren’t bound together (by having their connections more secretive) or because there are genuine disagreements between different sectors of bourgeoisie. I can’t imagine every capitalist is fully aware of the game.
Outside of trusts and the like, the capitalists are in competition with each other and their broad conspiring is basically to maintain a beneficial playing field for that competition because they’re all angling to become as rich as they can, and anyone who isn’t is replaced by a competitor who is.
I unironically just insist on never referring to the rich as humans, they are pigs. Same goes for people who demand privileges for being white or men or whatever. That’s purely the logic of the pig, pure gluttonous hedonism and if someone gets hurt, all the better!
Look at how giddy the pigs are oinking about ruining your life for free money. Inb4 “just start your own business and become one of us, filthy poor!” as if the majority of businesses started don’t fail.
I’ve known far too many pigs (the animal) to attribute them the same level of shortsighted greed and gluttony and lack of empathy as billionaires. They are monsters, below even the lowest of animals.
Too bad constant capital like AI doesn’t generate surplus value, only humans do. You can’t exploit machines, they only transfer their own value to the product over their lifetime.
Even if replacing those workers with LLMs in whatever field this is actually works, profit increases will only be temporary until competing firms also do it and prices start falling below what they were before.
Having a higher ratio of constant to variable capital will help them set prices above values, so they can appropriate value produced in other sectors, but even that might be offset by the falling rate of profit. Or the burst of the bubble / the next crisis.
In the end, AI or no AI, all capitalists want to form a monopoly, to be able to price gouge and appropriate surplus value produced in other sectors or by smaller firms.
kill your boss
I thought this was an onion article on first glance.
I guess the Onion equivalent would be “CEOs extremely aroused at idea of firing employees over AI”.
It would have to be
spoiler
CEO claims not to be aroused by firings despite visible erection
Maybe too much
Data centers are like grass Pokémon.
They’re weak to Fire 🔥
Not the onion? Jesus christ…
I get extremely excited at the thought of placing these people in front of a firing squad
Too quick and not ironic enough.
These disgusting pigs need to be hooked up to a foie gras machine. They’re hungry for more more more, and who are we to deny ol’ porkchop his consoom?
Idk i think a firing squad is ironic enough for people who get off on firing people. And it’s only quick if the bullets hit something vital, lol
But if you want lasting punishment i like how they treated emperor Puyi, just made him do menial labor for the rest of his life.
I like to think it actually rehabilitated him, but idk
A bullet to the head is too good for these shit stains
