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Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

economy-rattling bubbles caused by widespread financial fraud and product misrepresentation are good, actually especially for the already heavily marginalized, I'm told

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Dr. Kalt
@kaltnull.bsky.social

AI will usher in a 3-day workweek. Ok, what he's not saying is that employees will be paid accordingly. Why should you pay an employee who with the use of AI can do the work of 5 days in 3 for 5 days? Especially since tokens don't grow on trees.

Dr. Kalt
@kaltnull.bsky.social

Just to be perfectly clear and since there is little nuance here: I am not defending that. But if Bezos-types tout the amount of work hours a new tech will save, they talk not about workers having to do less, they talk about saving on labor costs / paying people less.

David Eff
@dhf-on-bsky.bsky.social

He's not wrong...about that part Cable companies took in vast sums to run cable all over the US, went bankrupt, but the cables are still there I think it's a strategy