Companies already send that clear message even without AI. That's why there's fear here: we expect companies to behave as they always have, and that is with a level of contempt for human workers.
You don't have to read between the lines, you can simply read the lines.
Reducing costs is really, really important, and nothing to be ashamed about.
At that point, there's absolutely something to be ashamed about.
Eg you could build a smart phone that mechanically lasts ten years, but who would want to use a ten year old smart phone anyway?
Well, of course. Edge cases aside, why shouldn’t anyone save on money when it’s acceptable to do so?
Most of the people I personally know who are 60 and older have jobs.
The economy will shift to just addressing the wants and needs of those with wealth via luxury goods and services:
> How do we make money from this theme? We see two ways. The first is simple. If you believe, like us, that the Plutonomy exists, and explains why global imbalances have built up (for example the savings rate differentials), and you believe there is no imminent threat to plutonomy, you must in turn believe that the current “end of the world is nigh” risk premium on equities, due to current account deficits, is too high. Conclusion: buy equities.
> There is however a more refined way to play plutonomy, and this is to buy shares in the companies that make the toys that the Plutonomists enjoy.
Your mistake is you’re looking at a future world in todays state.
Replacing horses with cars will free up those horses to do other productive work, like pulling plows and turning stone mills, thereby benifiting the horses.
Ultimately the fact that you an individual intended to intend an intention continues to hold a $1 value represented in metal coins until the last of us joins the rest in pickle jars.
Companies are people. You are saying people running those companies are doing that to other people
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. - Aristotle
Companies exhibit emergent behavior that might be hard, if at all possible, to predict if you only had a single individual as reference. For instance, most individuals would probably never agree to manufacture a weapon that is specifically requested to kill your neighbor. However, this same individual will show no empathy and remorse for their labor in a company that produces something that is used to commit incredible destruction to the earth, even contributing to the deaths of millions of people.
Are you talking about gun manufacturing for law enforcement or military purposes? Because those weapons aren’t manufactured to kill one specific person (my neighbor).
If somehow the government were to pay me adequately to hand-craft a gun for the police or military, I would have no moral compunctions in doing so. I see no reason for the government to ask me to hand-make an inferior good at such high cost, though.
Everyone has a boss, and a budget to hit.
It is the Banality of Evil.
US corporations are full of layers of Middle management made of "Eichmann"s.
Be it violating environmental laws on dumping, covering up sexual abuse, or sending people to ovens.
It happens, has happened, and will get worse.
And yes, it will be done by humans to other humans.
Or that we should just allow for any group of people to do anything to another group of people, because it just happens, it’s just human nature, so whatever?
I guess that’s kind of the way the US has been going for a while now
Just because humans tend to create systems that tend to reward evil doesn't mean we can't try to be better.
The problem isn't capitalism or communism. Both are run by humans who could choose to be better.
I don't know how to improve humans. I know it isn't religion given it's tendency to just become another system that rewards evil.
Maybe it is just groups, humans don't do well in large hierarchies.
But not saying to give up, maybe just saying, stop arguing about capitalism versus communism, since they both can be good or bad depending on the humans that make it up.
Seems like you are just arguing with yourself there
Meditations on Moloch
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Companies are a completely made up concept. Made up by, you guessed it, people
People create them, people run them, people decide what to do with them
It’s the same for any organization
It’s people all the way down