Comment on Millions of Gen Zers are jobless—and unemployment is mainly affecting men

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Good? I don’t understand the defense of having more jobs for people.

  Genuine question, aside from the creative ventures (which I believe generative AI should never be used for in a professional setting), what’s the value in having people work for work’s sake? Like the monotonous jobs, the jobs that don’t have any real value but still should get done.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    the reason is because a strong demand for human labor drives wages up.

    the free labor market is regulated by supply and demand, i.e. a high demand for human workforce leads to higher prices for that labor (a.k.a wages)

    now, if AI takes the jobs, the overall demand for human labor diminishes, and that’s gonna lower the wages even for those jobs who are themselves not affected by AI.

    with low wages, people would have to organize and demand Universal Basic Income, but since people in america historically find it difficult to organize and demand something, lots of people are worried that UBI either won’t come or will be too little to live well off it.

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