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“It feels like Squid Game”: China’s workers scramble to keep up in the AI race— Employees are rushing to learn new tools as layoffs and automation fuel widespread AI anxiety. (restofworld.org)
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[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 63 points 2 months ago

It’s like that here too and it’s shit.

Everyone I know is burning out and asking me to help them find a new job.

[-] MichaelScotch@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Could you help me find a new job too?

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately probably not.

I’ve been doing resume reviews, mock interviews, and making coding tests for friends but I can’t do that anonymously for strangers.

If you have something you want me to look over I can, I just probably can’t help with the other stuff.

[-] MichaelScotch@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

I wasn’t being serious, just making a joke. But I appreciate what you for friends. We have to keep helping each other wherever we can

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

What about taxes? Can you help me do my taxes? I'm trying to do it myself, but it's asking me to fill in the lines from Schedule II, and I don't know what that is! My numbers add up, and either my refund is 42 billion dollars, or $0. In either event, I fear I've screwed this up.

[-] org@lemmy.org 1 points 2 months ago

Find a new career.

[-] sommerset@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 months ago

At least China has universal healthcare

[-] spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No they don't. They have state provided health care, supplemented with private options.

But they are not universal in the sense that (1) not the entire population is covered (although almost everyone is) (2) health care is not close to free for most people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care_by_country#China

There is literally a hit movie couple years ago about the difficulty to obtain affordable Imatinib: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_to_Survive

(Imatinib was later covered by state health care package because of this movie

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Damn I had no idea. My in-laws were considering to move to China (they're originally from HK) and I had assumed it's because the healthcare/elderly care was better there than in Canada, but maybe not?

[-] spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I should specify I am referring to mainland China. Hong Kong has a different health care systems, and the health care is usually considered reasonably affordable for residents (could be because people in Hong Kong are generally more wealthy than most of mainland China)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Hong_Kong

I want to add China's healthcare is still reasonably affordable for many people living and working in cities.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

My understanding is they do not.

Which is kind of the worst of both worlds.

[-] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Thank fucking christ I work a job where you have to physically go places to do the work.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Back to the mines, slave!

[-] greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago

Eventually they'll just make you pilot one of those robot dogs around site and swap out modules on big slide-out cassettes because its cheaper to have someone in thailand swap out an AC compressor at some datacenter somewhere.

[-] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Tbh, I'd do that. I already want one of those RC snow blowers. Mount a camera to it and I can sit inside and plow my driveway for 18 hours, but at least it'd be kinda fun.

[-] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

I’m freelance, and AI can’t do my job yet…

But I’m sure it will be able to one day.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago

im aware of certain companies as well behind the scenes doubling down on ai workload very recently as well, so China definitely isnt alone on that front.

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

bullshit..... Evil mean chyanah got a middle class... you ain't got shit not even a shit shack where you can sleep. COPETURD circling the drain.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

........Well I'm fairly sure this comment isn't AI generated. Usually with AI, I at least understand the projected message.

Here, I'm fairly certain that not all of those are even real words! Who just sits there and makes up fake words, as if they were real? Hmmph. A real loser, that's who!

.........covfefe.

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