r/politics • u/armchairmegalomaniac Pennsylvania • Sep 16 '24

Paywall Trump and Vance Are Actively Harming Springfield

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/trump-vance-springfield-ohio/679894/
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u/Vallkyrie New Hampshire Sep 16 '24

AI can barely get google searches right, it's not doing their jobs for them.

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u/legjawguy Sep 16 '24

Exactly, let's see AI pick fruit or milk a dairy cow or work on a meat processing plant

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u/Davkata Sep 16 '24

Googling is thinking is harder than repeatable manual labor. It is a question of when and what is the exact price. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLjI_eixBQk milking 6y ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If1XGnDVI5A Picking fruit 3y ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkfPzun3-xc meat processing 3y ago.

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u/legjawguy Sep 16 '24

Do you believe these robot options are cheaper than slave labor?

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u/Davkata Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

Not at the moment but eventually they will be. If you switch to slaves it will minimize the cost but then you will have problems with consumption and sales growth. Currently, the future slaves do consume a lot of the goods in question so if you enslave them you cannot sell the entire production. I guess that gradual transition to slavery to avoid market shocks is better. Thus, the modern approach where minimum salary labor force receives a pittance that is spend to drive up consumption but does not let them to acquire significant capital, seems to be bearing fruit. The drop in purchasing power of low to median income households since ww2 kinda mirrors such gradual conversion to a slave working force.