My understanding is the most “useful” thing a CEO typically does is schmooze with other rich assholes. A lot of companies need funding, and a lot of funding is handed out based on vibes. A good CEO makes friends with the assholes handing out money. That’s hard to replace with AI, probably.
On the other hand, CEOs routinely make stupid decisions. Maybe cutting that out makes up for the loss in funding opportunities?
Also this capitalist hellscape sucks. labor should unite instead of letting business idiots take most of the value they create.
I have a fundamental question.
labor should unite instead of letting business idiots take most of the value they create.
In case you actually manage to do that, and the factories run in fact so well that a million workers are enough to provide the whole US with all the food and consumer articles they need.
Then what do the other 331 million USians do? They would not have a job and therefore no source of income. They would revolt and a civil war would erupt? How would you deal with that?
Basic income seems like an obvious solution.
Many people would pursue happy lives. Do some art. Do some gardening.
You’d also want to have like public housing or something so you don’t have parasitic landlords and homelessness.
Basic income seems like an obvious solution.
ok i agree to this.
But then i do wonder, why take the extra detour over “labor should unite instead of letting business idiots take most of the value they create”? Why not just introduce UBI immediately?
Cuz you can’t introduce Ubi as long as there is a parasitic capitalist class controlling all the wealth.
There’s still going to be production, and I don’t think we should continue with the capitalist class extracting value and making bad decisions
If you introduce basic income without addressing that, you’ll still have all the enshittification
rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
That’s kinda my line of thinking - it’s all based on vibes, and AI actually has better vibes in the view of most people than your average CEO.
Yeah it’s not gonna schmooze in the traditional sense, but it will introduce itself as the smartest and most competent amalgamation of the best and most successful CEO’s in history, with none of the weaknesses or greed or vice of a human CEO.
I bet investors will jump on pretty quick for the first AI CEO, and more companies will follow after.