Qualification:
No, seriously, it’s just awful. I’m starting to worry that I’ll end up homeless or working in low-paying jobs like mining, if, of course, such jobs still exist and aren’t taken by other people. Maybe I should move to a more or less decent village, where at least I’ll have the opportunity to grow my own food and get water from a well?
But I saw that life in the villages is very hard, and I’m not ready to work from morning until late at night without days off.
The year 2027 scares me a lot.
Revolution against the oligarchs. Vote, become member of a leftist party, trade union, direct action, insurrection, convince others, contribute, sabotage – whatever, every measure counts.
Okay ai, someone locked themselves out of their apartment. Solve. Okay ai, here’s this flat tyre on my bike. Solve. Okay ai, I have a leak in my kitchen. Solve.
In short, I’m not too afraid :)
In a world where people have nothing to lose, the people in power will need to be afraid.
Seriously, if we end up in a situation where we have mass unemployment with no safety net because of AI, billionaires and politicians will be hanging from lampposts.
They will all have new jobs for us as their private army slaves.
They just wont let it get that bad. Make sure people can afford a netflix subscription and some shitty junk food each day and there will be no revolution.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/
It’s a long article but absolutely worth it. I don’t want to put an tl;dr here because every word there is worth reading.
Thank you for the link, good read.
Individually, I don’t know. Collectively, socialist revolution. Workers in socialist states aren’t nearly as anxious about AI as workers in capitalist ones.
being existentially afraid of new tech instead of excited for the possibilities is a terribly capitalist problem to have.
New tech isn’t socially neutral. Should we be excited about the possibilities of new missiles and warplanes? If you understand how that new technology can be bad, you can understand how other new technologies can also not be “exciting”. Capitalism produces for the sake of production. We have plenty of useless shit that exists for the ouroboros of profit and marketing rather than to fulfil some natural use case. I think modern LLMs fall into the former, not to mention the energy cost of the current demand. I think LLMs can be cool as toys/for demos/as academic projects/etc but the current prevalence is purely due to marketing and AI companies trying to make something that is quite expensive, profitable.
The logical, humanitarian solution is universal basic income (UBI).
Mining in Australia is a high paying job.
Let’s start working dodgy finance jobs. Faking stuff that ai is doing. Faking income etc in unregulated areas.
