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There's so much narrative around current society how AI is terrible for taking jobs away.
That's the entire point! That's good! We're supposed to not need to do anything anymore with advancing technology.
The problem isn't that technology takes jobs away, the problem is that the savings are converted into more profit for the ultra rich, while it should be converted into having to work less for everyone.
Exactly this. There was a meme (or maybe many) rolling around long ago about how the intention was not to have humans do all the jobs and AI do all the art: quite the opposite.
This is related to the growth in productivity we have seen across industries for the last 50 years. It is through the roof, but wages are lower per unit production and aren't showing any signs of ending their stagnation.
The problem there is the same with all this new tech enhancing lives and production, while people still have to work as much as before, if not more: the gains, monetary or otherwise, are being pocketed by someone else.
It's like wage theft, but "better": it's progress theft.