• mlg@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Is it selfish to think the collapse of the economy and potential loss of employment is worth it for component prices to drop back to normal?

    • TheFogan@programming.dev
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      4 hours ago

      I mean… both are inevitable… the economy has collapsed for the normal people, and employments been hitting everyone for over a year, and bottom line, either way AI goes… it’s a lot of jobs. IE it fails and shrinks down… all the jobs around it are in trouble, it actually succeeds it’s going to take as many jobs as possible, there’s no job friendly ending to this.

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      I don’t think so. I sometimes think of covid and how when actual calamity hits we suddenly realize money is a kind of fiction. If the economy goes totally to shit we will see no mass starvation and probably not even mass homelessness or else we would have to admit what a giant failure capitalism is.

      Just like covid, at the end of the day when shit hits the fan we retreat back to that archaic and ancient system known as “socialism”.