Comment on 1 in 5 Brits think AI layoffs could trigger civil unrest

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• eleijeep@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  And the reality is that it’s neither of those two that are to blame. We’re in recession and AI is just the convenient excuse to make layoffs without crashing the stock-price.

  The real people who should be blamed are the ghouls who have been exploiting disaster-capitalism since at least the pandemic to concentrate all of the wealth in the hands of a few oligarchs. The politicians are all complicit.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Isn’t the economy growing, so not a recession by any means. Stagnating with very low growth? Sure. But not a recession. Yet…

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