We hate doing repetitive jobs but also hate AI taking it away from us. amirite?

Honestly why do you work somewhere if you hate it so much? You're just going to hate your entire existence until you retire?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

To eat and sleep somewhere comfortable. Sometimes you've invested in a career that you no longer enjoy but what are you going to do? Start over, take a huge pay cut and work your way up again? You could, if you're lucky, but that's a major sacrifice with a large chance you could find yourself not liking that job either. It's just not that simple though I really really wish it was. It's a crap shoot picking your path as a teen, giving it years of your life, only to find your dream job wasn't all it was cracked up to be or the landscape has changed so much it's not what it was when you started. ...Also, retire? What is that? Like taking a vacation day between the weekend and a holiday or something?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Work =/= entire existence (except in America, maybe?). It's a means to an end. I have things outside of work that make working a job I dislike just about worthwhile, which under capitalism is about as good as I can hope for.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If you think Americans have an unhealthy work/life balance you should look into Japanese business culture.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

What kind of things outside of work? Little monkey fellas that got a band together?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Watching insects.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Isn't it past your bedtime, kid?

by Rolfsonalbertha 1 week ago

Because nowhere else will hire me at the moment. Not everyone's employment is by their choosing

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I can answer that, for money

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I don't think that is it. If everyone got a 10% pay cut (instead of 100%) to have AI take their job, I'm m sure no one would complain. Greed is actually what people don't like here.

by Lbartoletti 1 week ago

I think people would be very pissed if they got a 10 percent pay cut

by Gianni19 1 week ago

You misunderstand me. I mean getting to not have to work anymore for 90% the pay.

by Lbartoletti 1 week ago

Not if their work decreased to 0 in return.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Farmers are 10.4% of the US labor force. They were approximately 42% of the US labor force in 1900.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Broadly speaking, people don't hate the idea of losing their jobs to AI. They hate the idea of not being able to afford food because they couldn't get jobs because of AI. If you lay the groundwork for everyone to have universal basic income while AI does all the work - you won't hear as many people complaining.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It's not AI that people hate, it's capitalism.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Por qué no los dos?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

This is a much different understanding from a liberal arts and creative aspect as it is doing a job on the Ford line of repetition over and over.

by Kentonluettgen 1 week ago

We hate doing repetitive jobs which is why people are paid to do them. We just hate that AI is taking away our way to make money.

by Eastern_Product_6563 1 week ago

We just hate that AI is our bosses are taking away our way to make money means of survival.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I mean sure but go a bit further up the line and should they choose to keep manpower over ai, they'd be at a massive disadvantage to companies that didn't. I get that it's the person that has to make morals around the tools, but some tool's existence changes things in a way that permanent and is outside of society's control. It's an extreme example but if AI can find a cure for cancer or global warming, is it's really morally correct to forego it so a lot of people don't lose their jobs right now?

by Eastern_Product_6563 1 week ago

I'm not saying society shouldn't use AI. I'm saying the product of the benefits shouldn't be allocated to the few at the expense of the many. Someone with a highschool diploma and a mundane job used to be able to afford a house, multiple kids, annual summer vacations, and international vacations every few years. Today that's practically unheard of while we've seen record wealth accumulation. In short, AI labor is good. It will cause problems in our society if the benefits are not shared.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Technically we don't hate AI taking it away but rather AI taking away income.

by ComprehensiveLog 1 week ago

I wish more people would think this way and live it. If we all have a good standard of living, we would have do amny less problems. Opportunities will motivate, but when the light at the end of the tunnel is closing before your eyes, most people won't want to work harder. I have faith in humanity.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

People will revolt far before it gets to that point I think. Fingers crossed.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You're so close yet soooo far from making a good point.

by Gerda71 1 week ago

No we don't? We have the fact that ai is being used to make art and that people are stuck doing menial labor. Completely the opposite you lemon

by Similar-Low 1 week ago

I think the bigger issue people have with AI is it taking the non-repetitive jobs away from us…like art, voice acting, and creative writing.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I think it's a far cry to outright blame seventy different forks of GPT-4 for claiming customer support jobs which were already automated to begin with.

by This-Imagination4213 1 week ago

Not me. I can't wait for the moment when AI take away repetitive jobs.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

maybe we just hate jobs in general

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Repetitive work is not intellectually fulfilling, but it is reliably achievable. It is a scary place to be when your livelihood depends on you be intellectually on 100% of the time.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

We don't we hate the fact that it takes away income from us. If things were cool a lot of jobs would be taken by machines and then we can just relax but since everything is run off of us being terrified of being homeless we have to then compete with these machines for the job.

by Ally15 1 week ago

If AI would take the repetitive jobs but not the money we get paid for doing repetitive jobs we'd hate it a lot less.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Because we're never happy.

by Responsible-Truth 1 week ago

If AI can do it why the hell does it have to be done in the first place.

by True-Budget 1 week ago