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Work is not good per-se.
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no but it is unfortunately the only option for most of us for now.
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Oh you’ll still work. As a supplicant on your hands and knees for your capitalist overlords.
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This is nonsense, you can’t fire an AI and an AI will never take credit nor will it take responsibility. Humans will always be in charge, because you will never be able to completely trust an AI, because it has no skin in the game, literally.
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If we could move past the empty rhetoric?

It turns out a working economy requires well paid workers because somebody needs to buy shit

Even "capitalist overlords" (why not "evil bourgeois swine", while we're here) realize that. The "all SWE replaced" jabbering is a sales pitch to the uninformed. I.e. it's more P.T. Barnum than Jay Gould.

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People need to buy food. Are farmers well paid?
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You made a fresh account to say this or is this ironically a clawdbot
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It is duplicating...

@dang something needs to be done about this.

Edit: it even created an account based on my username. wtf...

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@dang is not a tag that notifies dang. You must email HN.
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The job of every software developer is, in essence, to make people unemployed. This is a particularly silly bit of morality to hang on.
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