Comment by strict9
11 days ago
>We just don't want to employ people, hence why we can't make an iphone or refine raw materials.
This is it. Aside from manufacturing, most recent AI startups are almost universally aligned in the desire to use it to reduce headcount. It's plastered all over their landing pages as a selling point: "use our product and you won't have to hire people."
Business culture is eating its own young and hollowing out the future with such empty goals and sales points.
I'm skeptical of actual results. There are a lot of layoffs attributed to AI but far fewer cases of increased sales attributed to it.
> Business culture is eating its own young
it's not eating its own young. It's externalizing the costs.
And it's understandable, because the cost of employees are perhaps the largest line item in the budget.
Perhaps it's more accurate to say capitalist culture is eating its own young, due to its fixation on business culture. And I'm saying that as basically a capitalist. Not sure where we go from here.
Shareholder supremacy is the problem.
We can go back to stakeholder capitalism.
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Away from unfettered capitalism, clearly.
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