Comment by bluefirebrand

> I don't want to be under the pressure of doubling my productivity for an employer. I want to capture that gain for myself.

Unfortunately this will never happen. I don't think it has ever happened in the history of capital

When a machine can double your productivity, capital buys the machine for you and fires one of your coworkers

Or the machine makes it so less skilled people can do the same work you do. But since they're less skilled, they command less pay. So capital pays them less, and devalues your work

Already seeing this with AI. My employer is demanding all engineers start using LLM tools, citing that it is "an easy 20% boost". Not sure where they got the number but whatever.

But is everyone going to get a 20% raise? No. Not a chance. Capital will always try to capture 100% of any productivity gains for themselves