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Comment by robotnikman

19 days ago

The future is not looking bright at all....

I only have a meme to describe what we are facing https://imgur.com/a/xYbhzTj

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weavie  18 days ago

As someone in the UK for whom that link is blocked, I wonder if that meme is doubly apt.

dmix  19 days ago

> The future is not looking bright at all....

The tech industry going through a boom and settling back down at a higher place than before isn't the end of the world. They all start merging together soon.

  • marcyb5st  18 days ago

    I am more afraid if AI will actually deliver what CEOs are touting. People that are now working will be unemployable and will have to pivot to something else, overcrowding these other sectors and driving wages down.

    If that comes to pass you will work the same or more for less money than now.

    Basically jump back to a true plutocracy since only a few people will syphon the wealth generated by AI and that wealth will give them substantial temporal power.

    • dmix  18 days ago

      This is basically just a standard cliche doomer prediction about any new development.

    • monkaiju  18 days ago

      I mean, I just dont see any evidence of that happening. TBF I'm a SWE so I can only speak to that segment, but its literally worse than useless for working with anything software related thats non-trivial...

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  • dijit  19 days ago

    There has never been an industry that does that consistently (that wasn't government subsidised at least).

    We got lucky with the dotcom bubble.

    There's no guarantee of anything, and it's totally possible for the industry to collapse and stay that way.

    • cootsnuck  18 days ago

      They got the current administration to ban state level regulation for them. Not to mention various defense contracts. They are government subsidized.