Poor guy

  • sunglocto@lemmy.zipEnglish
    221·
    12 days ago

    This picture says a thousand words.

    You have a company advertising their solution to human workers in nice glass plated aluminium billboards, completely neglecting the outside world and the fact that people need to work to live. And there is a homeless person right next to it, who likely, doesn’t have a job.

    This is the saddest image I have seen on lemmy

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      11·
      12 days ago

      What does the first world do when it doesn’t need the third world to produce its goods anymore? It lets the third world starve.

      “But surely they’ll need the middle class to keep buying their products!” I’m no longer sure of that. I think they might hunt wales (middle-class) once the fish (working-class) numbers dwindle out for a little while longer… but ultimately they will establish some kind of communism for themselves after they’ve extracted everything from us

    • PixellatedDave@lemmy.world
      3·
      12 days ago

      What I don’t get though is they need people to be purchasing their crap but if people don’t have a job then how’s that going to work?

      • JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net
        4·
        12 days ago

        Part of the problem I think is that their whole way of thinking is to ignore any externalities (from the polution they produce but don’t want to deal with to the growing economic disparity undercutting their profits) as someone else’s problem. Most companies need employed consumers to exist but each one benefits individually if they fire all their own workers - as long as someone else pays enough workers so they can buy their products. The people in charge of each company are there because they’re good at making the line go up consistently quarter by quarter, no matter what that takes. I don’t think they have the capability to deal with big problems (like this, or climate change) any more than the inclination.

        Basically nobody’s steering the ship because they’re all too busy disassembling it for parts.

      • theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        12 days ago

        They don’t though, not at the top top. The goal for some is to remove capitalism after the chaff has been thoroughly separated from the wheat.

        They suffer the working class and petit bourgeois because they need people to make their things, contribute to their lives in some alienated way; but if they believe they can get those things without the lower classes’ stink all over, then they’ll eliminate the working class.

        They no longer need assistants or secretaries thanks to LLMs allowing natural language interfaces to software. They keep getting sold on the idea of robot workers and maintenance robots to fix the robots and such. They think it’s close to time to end it.

  • ArchRecord@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    13 days ago

    They have an “AI” (LLM with shiny UI) that will find your (unknowing, completely uninterested in your company with no prior idea it exists) customer’s social media pages, then cold email them (with totals in the thousands of emails weekly) complement them on topics from their recent tweets as if it’s a real human, then go on to sell them things with large amounts of marketing jargon in the same paragraph.

    Any company that uses this on me is losing my business immediately.

    • JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net
      4·
      12 days ago

      Seriously, is this sidewalk lousy with marketing execs at rush hour?

      Actually, worse thought: perhaps it’s intended for regular people. The threat of AI scabs doesn’t work unless the workers know the AI exists, right? Putting this out there on street level makes people aware that their job is insecure and that might prevent them from trying to take PTO, refusing to work unpaid overtime, asking for raises, etc.