Tag: labor
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The coming AI backlash: capital is not here to make friends
[O]ur fears of what AI will do to us are really just our fears of what capitalism is already doing. And: the threat isn’t so much that AI is inevitable as that the ongoing—and likely expanding—immiseration of workers is unstoppable. This is the subtext of the strange and conflicted messaging that we get from the…
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Goes over lots of use cases for AI at a grocer. Some internal facing ones: The platform provides Kroger workers with a single point of access to check their shift schedule, request time off, set shift availability and view their pay stubs from one mobile app, according to a video Kroger played during the panel.…
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“Labor is valuable only insofar as it occupies a constraint the firm hasn’t yet automated.”
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Labor vs. AI
Automation creates a temporary rent for whoever controls the remaining bottleneck. Whether workers keep that rent is a power question, not a technology question. ChatGPT summary of this paper on automation and wages. And I would add: The firm is seeking to get rid of human workers as much as possible. So once that high…
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The Rising Cost of Child and Pet Day Care – “Another way to put this is that to retain workers, wages in stagnant-productivity sectors must rise to match those in (equally labor-skilled) high-productivity sectors. That means paying more for the same level of care, simply to keep the labor force from leaving”
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“Working People”
Is “working people” a US politics shibboleth? ChatGPT Responce: Yes, “working people” is a shibboleth in U.S. political discourse, particularly among progressive and labor-oriented politicians. It’s often used as a way to signal alignment with workers, unions, and the middle or lower class without explicitly saying “working class,” which can carry more rigid or ideological…
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Jevons paradox – When you automate something very valuable (or just “costly”), people demand more, and more complex product. This pulls in more need for labor that can do the more complex work. Hopefully.
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