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caffeineandsociety · 2 years ago

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"there is no such thing as unskilled labor" doesn't begin and end at people in "menial" jobs doing nifty little tricks for you to gawk at on tiktok fyi

#crapitalism #this is an extremely general statement btw #but because it's the number 1 place i see people getting hypocritical on this i must point out this includes neural net operation #the problem with neural nets/''ai'' UNDER CAPITALISM isn't ~unskilled labor displacing skilled workers~#it's moving more work into the realm the ceos can CONVINCE THE AVERAGE PERSON is ''unskilled''#so they can outsource it to people in the global south they can pay $1.50 an hour or less #because hey according to popular sentiment and the way the software is sold it's ~just pushing buttons~ why should we pay you any more #to spend 12 hours of your day in an overcrowded overheated basement #wrangling algorithms into creating a cohesive end result #in what is very likely your second or third language; if you want to be paid more get a REAL job right??#in the process making everything more difficult for people elsewhere on the chain - both because there are fewer of them #and because there's less ability to communicate between steps of the process #but ehhhh who cares about THAT dealing with those complications is what we pay people the BIG bucks of 75% livable wages for!#they can deal! what's more important is making line go up!#please hate the problem accurately #because a lot have correctly identified a problem but are falling quickly into ''WARGHL DIRTY UNSKILLED BROWN PEOPLE TOOK MY JOB'' about it #please care about the people they want to outsource that work to they're ALREADY exploited badly enough #that said - again - this is an EXTREMELY general statement #FAR from exclusive to neural nets #i see every time you go off about how fast food work is difficult and skilled because hot oil #but shit on window cleaners #i see every time you say sanitation is skilled UNTIL it can make you a low-end-of-6-figures salary #then they're just bougie oppressors #or UNTIL it needs to be done in a post-forced-poverty world #then it can just be a rotated community chore #don't think you're off the hook just because neural nets are topical

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