US senator appears at Manhattan rally alongside New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, who cautioned that AI is ‘coming for human jobs’
Bernie Sanders has sounded an alarm over the US economy, warning “the worst is yet to come” unless workers overcome a “ruling class” of billionaires.
The US senator spoke at a rally in Manhattan on Sunday alongside Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, who cautioned that artificial intelligence was “coming for human jobs” amid mounting concern over the technology’s rapid development.
As the pair headlined the launch of Union Now, a new drive to boost labor unions across the US, Sanders issued a bleak assessment of the consequences if workers fail to organize against billionaires like Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX; Jeff Bezos, executive chair of Amazon; and Donald Trump, the US president.
They can’t wait to force everyone into abject poverty.
They’re already doing this systemically on a massive scale.
I’ve lost 2/3rds of my department at my job to AI. It’s amazing how bad things are getting… The content the AI spits out is horrific, but CEO’s and executives are firing people left and right anyway, drunk on the bonuses they are likely receiving as a result.
What happens once everyone is forced into abject poverty, though? If we really play this out, what’s next? The push for AI comes across like the billionaires are saying “we won’t need you, anymore.” If that’s true, then what the fuck is the benefit of being a billionaire?
Take Zuckerberg for example. His income is derived from selling ads to potential buyers. Replace all the workers with AI, who exactly is going to buy anything from his ads? Where do they get the money from? Where do they get the free time to use Meta from?
The entire idea seems to be leveraging this fantasy ideology where the working class doesn’t need to be paid in order to consume, and like the billionaires aren’t dependents of the working class’ consumption. So, what am I missing that they apparently know? Why does any of this make sense to them?
Are they so beholden to capitalist ideology that even the blatantly obvious end result here is obfuscated by their need for short term gains? No, right? I mean… obviously that’s part of the situation, but there must be more. They’re banking on something, but what?
You see once you are that wealthy more money doesn’t really make a difference. If everyone around you is middle class and not desperate you have very little actual power.
Now on the other is hand, if you gut the middle class and make everyone poor they are suddenly desperate. Now you have power because people will do anything to survive.
The wealthy people need to make people poor in order to appreciate their wealth at this point. A strong middle class can tell them to fuck off, but a desperate poor class will do anything they tell them.
I don’t believe such a thing is sustainable. Look to Iran, a similar dynamic where Israel would have liked to prevent Iranian independence. Independence to build strength, presence, sovereignty, … Israel had this idea that they would need to “mow the lawn” — which translates to bombing the shit out of them every once in a while.
This is like antibiotics. You kill the many of the entities, sure, but short of committing genocide, you’re left with a smaller population of more capable individuals. Those individuals will come back stronger and will demand harder, as we can see now with the emboldened Iran we’ve been left with.
It’s not a pretty path forward. But, I’m doubtful it will work out for them in the long run.
It is not sustainable and these policies will likely hurt the wealthy in the long run with decreased profits. They don’t care about the long term though.
They are basically trying to take as much as they can and do enough damage that we can’t undo what they pushed through easily.
Unfortunately they have been winning not just in the US but every developed country as seen in the ever growing wealth gaps.
The answer is small incremental changes/policies that will slowly eliminate the wealth gap without causing too much disruption.
They’ve murdered the planet and they’re trying to buy the survival of their descendants. They’re perfectly okay letting everyone else die and for their companies to collapse, so long as they get their place in the bunker/spaceship/whatever.
The reason these Sociopathic Oligarchs are so giddy about AI, to the point of investing corporation destroying amounts of money, is because they are so excited about replacing so many disgusting human workers with clean, tireless, obedient robots.
That’s the bottom line - they are pushing AI so hard at your job because they want it to get good enough to replace you.
The Great Replacement Theory is real, it’s just not Jews or undocumented immigrants you have to worry about, it’s yourself. YOU are training your own replacement.
All because they want slaves one way or another. Human or not.
“The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.”
— Oscar Wilde
It’s the stupidest thing since they’re fighting against UBI at the same time. Robots taking everyone’s jobs should be a utopian future to look forward to, but instead they’re creating a situation that’s universally bad for everyone including themselves. When nobody is employed and nobody has any source income, who’s going to give the oligarchs more money via consumerism?
I know a lot of billionaires want to bring back a tech-flavoured version of feudalism where they live
likeas actual kings but even medieval peasants were given some form of bread and circus to keep them from rising up.Billionaires right now are on track to create a duel between millions to billions of poor and hungry people against the tiny number of them. Without bread and circuses, the people have nothing to live for except overthrowing their oppressors
The stock market, thsy think they just invest in each other. The whole idea is not needing humans at all. If they could get the robots to mass produce their food then they wouldn’t give a fuck if the companies make money. Hell they dont now and still earn billions a year.
in so many things it just gets me how these things should be utopian but are dystopian because of powerful folks coopting and exploiting them. I should love smartphones and drones and ai and such rather than despising it all.
We all wanted Star Trek… but what we’re really going to get is The Expanse
One thing about playing cyberpunk 2077 is it feels so creepily close. Especially all the homelessness and the way the rental buildings worked.
We need organization, this is all an exercise in futility without it. Organization in citizenry, on our own forums. Fediverse could work, but not like any that are set up now, we need a new one, with a better set up for what we need.
Why do you think they made Palantir? It’s to target organizers. They already tested their methods. Target the lead organizers and make them go away, before anyone even hears about them if possible.
I know it, and this is just the latest iteration of targeting any organization of the people. We can go around these guys though, don’t think we can’t. The decentralized nature of the fediverse could be unstoppable as of now. We are more capable than they are, when we act in concert.
I’d love to see Bernie repeal the special law that Congress put into place to prevent people from looking up private plane information.
How would a single senator repeal a bill?
By introducing a bill to repeal it.
Bernie doing a reverse Kimberly Guilfoyle in every aspect including truthfulness and sanity ✊🏼❤️
