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How AI is Devouring the Economy


I didn't think my job would be touchable because it takes a lot of years to have the experience I have and you also have to be reasonably fit because it's fairly physical although not exactly chain gang. I have to move all over the place between areas of a building and machines and different tools I use. So I figured that's just physically too much complex movement for a machine to efficiently duplicate. You could probably train a monkey after a while but not a machine.

 Here's how it can happen and probably already is... Big chunks of houses are prefabbed in a shop, trucked (eventually by driver-less trucks) to the job and assembled. There will be robot tenders and people tending computers that analyse every movement and cross-reference that against every shred of financial data related to the movement and calibrate it for maximum return on investment. Everything is timed, video'd, recorded. All family owned business....cabinet shops, tool and die, veterinary clinics, dental offices, funeral homes, houses, are being snapped up by private equity groups, the long-term expensive employees are replaced and AI  overseas the management of the robots and the interpretation of all the data and making things ever-more cost effective and concentrating the accumulated wealth among a smaller slice of the population. It's feudal.  It is abso-fucking-lutely dystopian and I'm glad most of my life was lived before this evil shit descended upon our species because I think it'll be our ruin.

Also, why the fuck are people shopping insurance companies instead of doctors and fearing coverage being denied more than whatever cancer is eating them? It's insane.  All this crazy shit happened during my lifetime.

".. It's feudal.."   BINGO!  That is exactly what republicans are working toward, the feudal system. The serfs will be poor, hungry, will own nothing, and this time around "The Church" will have no moderating effect. The few folks at the very top will take what they want, do what they want, and once again make laws that keep you down and not slow them down.

We are watching it happen in real time.

Next is population reduction.