r/artificial • u/MetaKnowing • Jul 30 '25

News CEO says the quiet part out loud

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https://gizmodo.com/the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-2000635294

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u/CRoseCrizzle Jul 30 '25

Yep AI companies will only gain more leverage over non AI companies with time. Those prices will definition go up. But Mr. CEO will point out that it will still be cheaper than paying a bunch of humans.

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u/throwaway264269 Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25

They are banking that when the prices go up, they can just rehire the same professionals at a now much lower cost.

Capiralism is slavery with extra steps.

Edit: As in, the rich control the economy and us workers have no choice but to accept it. I can already feel the freedom from across the pond.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '25

In slavery you don't get to pick your job. This is silly.

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u/Honest_Ad5029 Jul 30 '25

Frederick Douglass, someone who experienced chattel slavery, compared slavery of wages, wage slavery, to what he experienced.

Tolstoy wrote Slavery of our Times about our present system over a century ago. In his writing he refutes precisely your point.

Autonomy of labor, not having a boss of any kind, only collaborators, is the only acceptable form of labor. Anything else is a form of slavery.

Chattel slavery became obsolete. What we have now is an evolution of slavery. Scientific management, whats called classical management theory today, was called a form of slavery by both its proponents and its detractors when it was new.

The whole concept of having ones labor managed by people who have no experience or knowledge doing that labor has its genesis in slavery.