With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?
I know AI as an honest utility is itself a lie to some extent, but this only aids my argument further. People’s career struggles are panning out to be valueless because of a nothing-fad that no one could have predicted.
This is going to be a fucking painful transition - I daresay its going to be one of the most painful transitions in history… but the solution is social upheaval. I can’t tell you when it will fire but I doubt we’ll ever see 20% unemployment in developed countries so probably sometime when we’re in the mid-teens. It’s unlikely we’re going to see a voluntary solution to wealth inequality so shit will get violent and it’ll suck for everyone.
The AI revolution will take a while to come to fruition and it will require a lot of oversight initially, but we’ll gradually scale back the oversight and concentrate a few areas of the economy into extremely few hands (sort of like what’s happened with tech giants)… eventually we’ll hit the breaking point and hopefully we’ll come out the far side with an equitable post-scarcity economy. If you’re lucky you’ll be dead by then though because it’s going to fucking suck but, inevitably, either the wealthy will lose or we’ll go extinct.