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US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
They Live was a product of its time. We live in our time, so instead we've got Sorry to Bother You .
I'm not sure what 'film' America is trying to be but I've seen plenty of real life references that could have come straight from either the Handmaids Tale, Idiocracy, The Dead Zone or Civil War the past few years. Life does seem to imitate art sometimes.
Plenty of Do Not Look Up in there as well on a lot of topics.
Re: US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
They Live was a product of its time. We live in our time, so instead we've got Sorry to Bother You .
I'm not sure what 'film' America is trying to be but I've seen plenty of real life references that could have come straight from either the Handmaids Tale, Idiocracy, The Dead Zone or Civil War the past few years. Life does seem to imitate art sometimes.
No, the art is calling out what’s always been there but you didn’t notice.
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#14Has anyone done the math on how many jobs AI has to replace in order to justify current valuations? Would be interesting to see imo
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#15That thing that reassures me is that I kind of think most people in software aren't doing much useful work anyway, so if the whole thing was really driven by hiring the fewest humans possible to get the work done, companies probably could have fired half of us even without AI.
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#17I think people are blaming AI for a recession caused by trump’s tarrifs and the oil crisis. Businesses fear that oil prices may explode until enough of the economy enters a recession that oil demand decreases, and are already feeling the supply crunch
Yet the stock market is reaching ATH, I don't think recession is the accurate word. I also think the fixation on Trump is misleading and takes away from the actual structural side effects of dollar issuance via unbacked fiat. It's convenient scapegoating to take your attention away from the long lingering issue of US dollar dominance and debt that is now causing large social divide and standard of living.
The physics of a reserve currency is that it reverts to zero through endless supply to fuel the engine to accelerate inequality at home and abroad. You see that an increasingly smaller club of people are politically opposed yet benefit by creating a narrative that takes your attention away from it.
This is the uncomfortable truth that not enough people understand and they are stuck in a loop chasing after things invented and created specifically to keep you there.
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#18I think people are blaming AI for a recession caused by trump’s tarrifs and the oil crisis. Businesses fear that oil prices may explode until enough of the economy enters a recession that oil demand decreases, and are already feeling the supply crunch
^ this!
And higher interest rates than before
Over hiring from Covid is still an overhang
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#19Has anyone done the math on how many jobs AI has to replace in order to justify current valuations? Would be interesting to see imo
I think the goal is to replace workers who cost $10,000/mo with an AI agent that costs $8,000/mo
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#20This is going to be horribly embarrassing when it turns out that AI can only outcompete human labor in some roles. https://www.axios.com/2026/04/26/ai-cost-human-workers