these are not signs of technological advancement they are signs of a population whose mind has been filled with misanthropic bullshit, from the environmentalism, the Bomb, the endless consumerist hedonism, to now the replace humans with machines story
all of them come from the same source, the lord of this world, the lord of flies, the enjoyoor of death, decay, decadance, and putrescence
i cringe so hard at this story about AI because i understand the large majority of the tech well enough to know it's far from having any capacity to replace human creativity, in fact i don't think you can have creativity without risk of death, and machines don't have that and will never have that and until i see a machine mamma giving birth to machine babies i'm never gonna believe it will ever happen
and even if it did it wouldn't change anything, because we have a ~200k years lead on them for adaptation
there is gonna be a reset, alright, it's gonna be Guillotines 2.0 once enough of them snap out of the hypnotic trance they have been induced into
It's causing widespread lethargy because people don't see the point of working for more than subsistance. There is no larger goal.
Like, nobody thinks about saving up to buy a house. They can't afford a house, no matter how hard they work and save, and the robots will cause them to get fired, and then they wasted their time, and they don't have a woman to put in the house, anyway.
They're being hit with widespread mechanisation and robotization, dissolving marriage market, sky-high asset prices, and a declining and aging customer base that prefers to buy foreign goods, simultaneously. Even Bitcoin won't save them because the older people will own almost all of the Bitcoin and they are reluctant to spend it.
Career Choice Armageddon.
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