With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?

I know AI as an honest utility is itself a lie to some extent, but this only aids my argument further. People’s career struggles are panning out to be valueless because of a nothing-fad that no one could have predicted.

  • smackjack@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Only a matter of time before the economy collapses because all these companies replace their workers with AI, only to find that no one can buy their services because everyone is out of a job.

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      5 months ago

      I can’t predict the future but that very much sounds like something our overlords would do.

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        5 months ago

        I can totally see it happening because these companies are so dead set on cutting costs that they’re not seeing the bigger picture.