AI-yi-yi

[Silent Majority]

There go the customer service jobs, as prophesied.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/th ... ab4df&ei=5

[Dr. Medulla]

There go the customer service jobs, as prophesied.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/th ... ab4df&ei=5

But think of all the free time those workers have now!

[Silent Majority]

There go the customer service jobs, as prophesied.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/th ... ab4df&ei=5

But think of all the free time those workers have now!

Not a single government on this planet is prepared for the obvious conclusion that work is about to end as we know it and a big chunk of humanity is not going to be able to sell their labour any more. A utopia of sorts is, at last, just within reach and the powers that be will only permit a desperate, struggling anti-human dystopia.

[Dr. Medulla]

There go the customer service jobs, as prophesied.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/th ... ab4df&ei=5

But think of all the free time those workers have now!

Not a single government on this planet is prepared for the obvious conclusion that work is about to end as we know it and a big chunk of humanity is not going to be able to sell their labour any more. A utopia of sorts is, at last, just within reach and the powers that be will only permit a desperate, struggling anti-human dystopia.

One of my very tentative predictions of the pandemic's long-term effects is the introduction of a universal basic income. Similar to how the welfare state was unimaginable and, believed, unworkable before the Depression, afterwards it was just common sense and seen as a means of solving capitalism's paradox (as American economists and sociologists believed in the 1950s). The economic shutdown in the initial stage of the pandemic and the government payments to keep people from being evicted, starving, etc will be the blueprint. That's my prediction—tentative, again—in terms of the pandemic's legacy.

[gkbill]

There go the customer service jobs, as prophesied.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/th ... ab4df&ei=5

But think of all the free time those workers have now!

Hello,

There will always be a market for Personal Assistants for the rich. It's no fun, it's not fulfilling, etc. to scream at a robot or computer screen when you can scream at a real person.

[Dr. Medulla]

There go the customer service jobs, as prophesied.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/th ... ab4df&ei=5

But think of all the free time those workers have now!

Hello,

There will always be a market for Personal Assistants for the rich. It's no fun, it's not fulfilling, etc. to scream at a robot or computer screen when you can scream at a real person.

This … smells of truth.

[revbob]

[gkbill]

Hello,

We are all on the same side here:

https://uproxx.com/indie/sting-not-impr ... -a-battle/

[Dr. Medulla]

Hello,

We are all on the same side here:

https://uproxx.com/indie/sting-not-impr ... -a-battle/

*heavy sigh* I guess we can't be overly picky with our allies.

[Mimi]

Hello,

We are all on the same side here:

https://uproxx.com/indie/sting-not-impr ... -a-battle/

I'll take it.

[Flex]

Hello,

We are all on the same side here:

https://uproxx.com/indie/sting-not-impr ... -a-battle/

Between this and the extemely amusing cameo in Only Murders in the Building, I've warmed to Sting just the tiniest bit.

[Kory]

Hello,

We are all on the same side here:

https://uproxx.com/indie/sting-not-impr ... -a-battle/

Between this and the extemely amusing cameo in Only Murders in the Building, I've warmed to Sting just the tiniest bit.

It was his album of John Dowland songs that did it for me.

[Kory]

There go the customer service jobs, as prophesied.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/th ... ab4df&ei=5

But think of all the free time those workers have now!

Not a single government on this planet is prepared for the obvious conclusion that work is about to end as we know it and a big chunk of humanity is not going to be able to sell their labour any more. A utopia of sorts is, at last, just within reach and the powers that be will only permit a desperate, struggling anti-human dystopia.

One of my very tentative predictions of the pandemic's long-term effects is the introduction of a universal basic income. Similar to how the welfare state was unimaginable and, believed, unworkable before the Depression, afterwards it was just common sense and seen as a means of solving capitalism's paradox (as American economists and sociologists believed in the 1950s). The economic shutdown in the initial stage of the pandemic and the government payments to keep people from being evicted, starving, etc will be the blueprint. That's my prediction—tentative, again—in terms of the pandemic's legacy.

I wish I had nearly this kind of optimism. I have another friend that's convinced we're going to have the 4-day workweek within 5 years. I just don't see it happening with either of these because all that money and labor could be benefiting the CEOs instead of the workers. The short-term gain of the rich just seems like a higher priority and damn the consequences.

[Dr. Medulla]

There go the customer service jobs, as prophesied.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/th ... ab4df&ei=5

But think of all the free time those workers have now!

Not a single government on this planet is prepared for the obvious conclusion that work is about to end as we know it and a big chunk of humanity is not going to be able to sell their labour any more. A utopia of sorts is, at last, just within reach and the powers that be will only permit a desperate, struggling anti-human dystopia.

One of my very tentative predictions of the pandemic's long-term effects is the introduction of a universal basic income. Similar to how the welfare state was unimaginable and, believed, unworkable before the Depression, afterwards it was just common sense and seen as a means of solving capitalism's paradox (as American economists and sociologists believed in the 1950s). The economic shutdown in the initial stage of the pandemic and the government payments to keep people from being evicted, starving, etc will be the blueprint. That's my prediction—tentative, again—in terms of the pandemic's legacy.

I wish I had nearly this kind of optimism. I have another friend that's convinced we're going to have the 4-day workweek within 5 years. I just don't see it happening with either of these because all that money and labor could be benefiting the CEOs instead of the workers. Their short-term benefit just seems like a higher priority and damn the consequences.

The thing is, the economy in North America is driven by consumption, so even business understands how important it is that people have money to redistribute back into their pockets. As jobs disappear as a matter of structural change, whatever labour cost savings are threatened by fewer consumers. The corporate tyrants were evaluating the effects of the pandemic, too, and the threats and opportunities to future business.

But, again, I'm not saying this is definitely going to happen, only that this kind of crisis always changes greater social and economic relationships. The world after a crisis never looks the same as it did before; it bears the effects of the crisis. So a longer-lasting change rooted in the reaction to the shutdown seems a reasonable guess.

[Kory]

But think of all the free time those workers have now!

Not a single government on this planet is prepared for the obvious conclusion that work is about to end as we know it and a big chunk of humanity is not going to be able to sell their labour any more. A utopia of sorts is, at last, just within reach and the powers that be will only permit a desperate, struggling anti-human dystopia.

One of my very tentative predictions of the pandemic's long-term effects is the introduction of a universal basic income. Similar to how the welfare state was unimaginable and, believed, unworkable before the Depression, afterwards it was just common sense and seen as a means of solving capitalism's paradox (as American economists and sociologists believed in the 1950s). The economic shutdown in the initial stage of the pandemic and the government payments to keep people from being evicted, starving, etc will be the blueprint. That's my prediction—tentative, again—in terms of the pandemic's legacy.

I wish I had nearly this kind of optimism. I have another friend that's convinced we're going to have the 4-day workweek within 5 years. I just don't see it happening with either of these because all that money and labor could be benefiting the CEOs instead of the workers. Their short-term benefit just seems like a higher priority and damn the consequences.

The thing is, the economy in North America is driven by consumption, so even business understands how important it is that people have money to redistribute back into their pockets.

I'm far from knowledgeable about economics, but how does this work when so much of the country lives paycheck to paycheck and can barely even pay rent, much less go shopping?