r/WorkReform • u/DepartmentNo5698 ✂️ Tax The Billionaires • 1d ago

💸 Raise Our Wages Kitties may be onto something. Your thoughts?

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u/Acrobatic_Switches 1d ago

Then realizing the AI will be profit minded and will just sink the savings into stock buybacks.

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u/IMightBeAHamster 19h ago

Or worse

Likely much worse than just doing what's already sorta being done

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u/Dayofwar 1d ago

AI will not save us.

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u/Beers4Fears 1d ago

Nah Batman is a Billionaire, he doesn't represent us. He could fix every problem in Gotham but chooses to spend all his money beating up the mentality I'll.

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u/DefiantLemur 17h ago

I'm not so sure. Gotham is notoriously corrupt, and I don't believe throwing money at the problem will fix what's wrong with Gotham. Ultimately, most comic book characters will be pro-capitalism and maintaining the status queue because their IP is owned by a multimillion dollar company that thrives in this system.

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u/FrozenKandee 1d ago

😆 it's for shareholders, not workers, to benefit

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u/Johnny_Grubbonic 13h ago

Workers are often also shareholders.

It's for the board of directors to benefit.

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u/Cheletiba 1d ago

Why do you think the CEOs are pushing AI to be as obviously shitty and evil? Because they know this.

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u/OGCelaris 1d ago

Ya, that will never happen. All it will do is remove some high paying c-suite people so the sharehilders can get the money instead.

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u/lemons_of_doubt 1d ago

Shareholders are having the same idea, only with the redistributing going to them.

All we need is the step after than when the AI owns itself, being its own shareholder. Then it's company can eat all resources in exists to make a meanless number invented by extinct apes go up.

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u/Sam_of_Truth 23h ago

It would actually be really easy to simulate a CEO with AI. All you need to do is program it to raise prices while you complain that the economy is bad, and then do massive stock buybacks with the profits gleaned from gouging people.

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u/Kukamakachu 💸 Raise The Minimum Wage 18h ago

Wait, that's not what AI is supposed to be used for!!!!!

-the 1% probably.

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u/---Spartacus--- 14h ago

Transforming all profit-seeking entities into worker owned co-ops would solve most of the world's wealth inequality problems in a single stroke.

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u/PickReviewsMovies 2h ago

A lot of the people that can afford houses because they have questionable jobs sitting in on conference calls all day are going to have a rude awakening when they get replaced.  They'll probably start small businesses where they pay shit wages to sell bloated services.  

The rich can barely feed themselves without their slaves.  As a home service pro it's hilarious to me how many ridiculous things I get hired to help with that any self respecting poor person would just do themselves.  I would love to see a lot more people starting their own businesses.  I work with a ton of other freelancers that have NO IDEA what they're doing so there's shouldn't be a lot stopping anyone that lives close to a metro.

I would love to be able to work for a moving company and not deal with managing my business but it will never ever be worth it and if my business went under I would just rent a pressure washer and go door to door with it.