Clarification:
Take, for example, 2027, when humans in offices will be successfully replaced by AI, and robots will begin to replace construction workers and other workers. How terrible do you think it will be after 2030? And how much the level of depression and everything else will increase. I will also add that not everyone will be able to receive unemployment benefits, and some will die of hunger. Let’s be realistic and not console ourselves with rosy fantasies.
The US Empire is dying, socialist countries like the PRC are rising, and partially thanks to the latter a lot of countries in the global south are escaping imperialism and are finally developing forward. Automation and AI are used in socialist countries already for the purposes of increasing production, not to destroy livelihoods. As the empire dies there will be chaos and death from its desparation (see Venezuela), but the long, queer, messy transition between global capitalism and socialism is well under way. We will win.
countries like the PRC are rising
China has a horrifyingly destructive demographics crisis on their hands. Even if they reversed course on that issue today, it won’t be solved for decades. And there is every indication their demographics issue is accelerating.
China is peaking. Them, South Korea, and Japan are the worlds case study on how to deal with these problems; all three are going to fuck up in 100 ways that everyone else will be able to learn from. Immigration is one of the main ways to deal with it, something that China is much worse off with as their poor wages and sheer size means they uniquely cannot attract enough people, unlike South Korea and Japan.
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China has a problem, sure, but it’s not a “horrifyingly destructive demographics crisis.” This is largely a cope narrative pushed by “China watchers.” Further, purchasing Power in 2022 was 25 times higher than 1978. China has decent wages now, and they are only improving. The latest five year plan is also focusing on improving domestic consumption, ie improvements in living standards, and as such has better prospects than either the ROK or Japan when it comes to demographic issues, as both are struggling economically.
robots will begin to replace construction workers and other workers
95% of all human labor used to be farming. Automating jobs is how we have gotten the prosperity we have today. Nothing we have done would be possible without automation. Increased productivity is far from a boogeyman, it’s something to be celebrated.
It’s over. Hopefully our politicians will be replaced with AI technocrats who will do a much better job.
That just means that whatever groups of interest are behind this “AI” (it won’t be AI, just called that way) won’t even have to bribe and contend with the (tiny, but possibly still present) humanity of our elected, and decision-making and power as a whole will be even more obfuscated!
