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The reality is that the CEO/executive class already has developed a dislike for us and is trying to use us as “batteries” like in the Matrix.

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Do you know personally some CEO-s? I know a couple and they generally seem less empathic than the general population, so I don't think that like/dislike even applies.

On the other hand, trying to do something "new" is lots of headaches, so emotions are not always a plus. I could make a parallel to doctors: you don't want a doctor to start crying in a middle of an operation because he feels bad for you, but you can't let doctors doing everything that they want - there needs to be some checks on them.

I would say that the parallel is not at all accurate because the relationship between a doctor and a patient undergoing surgery is not the same as the one you and I have with CEOs. And a lot of good doctors have emotions and they use them to influence patient outcomes positively.

Even then, a psychopathic doctor at least has their desired outcomes mostly aligned with the patients.

CEOs (even most VCs) are labor too

Do they know it?

Labor competes for compensation, CEOs compete for status (above a certain enterprise size, admittedly). Show me a CEO willingly stepping down to be replaced by generative AI. Jamie Dimon will be so bold to say AI will bring about a 3 day week (because it grabs headlines [1]) but he isn't going to give up the status of running JPMC; it's all he has besides the wealth, which does not appear to be enough. The feeling of importance and exceptionalism is baked into the identity.

[1] https://fortune.com/article/jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-chase-ceo-a...

That's the market's job. Once AI CEOs start outperforming human CEOs, investment will flow to the winners. Give it 5-10 years.

(Has anyone tried an LLM on an in-basket test? [1] That's a basic test for managers.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-basket_test

Not if CEOs use their political power to make it illegal.

Spoiler there’s no reason we couldn’t work three days a week now. And 100 might be pushing it, but having life expectancy to 90 as well within our grass today as well. We have just decided not to do that.

The reason we don't have 3 day weeks is because the system rewards revenue, not worker satisfaction.

Until shareholders treat them as such, they will remain in the ruling class

Almost everyone is "labor" to some extent. There is always a huge customer or major investor that you are beholden to. If you are independently wealthy then you are the exception.

Bingo

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