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“AI” Hurts Consumers and Workers -- and Isn’t Intelligent
(techpolicy.press)
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We really need to reform capitalism so “worse quality but slightly cheaper now” isn’t the default. Like, say what you want about communism, when they made a hammer and/or sickle, it was designed to last.
I’m not sure how to do it. 20 year warranties for everything? But we need to move away from cheap plastic crap replacing solid things.
Actually, that's not true. Quality of product and communist countries is generally low because there is no incentive to do quality work.
ah, that must be why hundreds of people have contributed to one of the most popular and highest quality operating systems for free over the last few decades.
the profit incentive is not the only motive to do quality work, and i think there's plenty of examples that it's not even the best incentive.
I crochet for a hobby so I can make gifts for my friends and family. I've put hundreds of hours in and started from scratch just to undo a mistake, and i've never been paid a penny.
A hobby or a passion is not a job you do to keep a roof over your head and feed your family. You also probably don't live in a communist country where you are compelled to work at low wages and wait your turn to get access to meager supplies for your crochet.