This is not a technology problem. AI intensifies work because management turns every efficiency gain into higher output quotas. The solution is labor organization, not better software.
On a separate note, I have the intensification problem in my personal work as well. I sit down to study, but, first, let me just ask Claude to do some research in the background... Oh, and how is my Cursor doing on the dashboard? Ah, right, studying... Oh, Claude is done...
Definitely not by posting on right-wing social media websites.
> I also worry that my desire to become a manager is in direct conflict with my desire to contribute to labor organization.
It is.
Nah. You can definitely do both. A labor organization of any meaningful size needs management. A labor union is effectively a business in its own right, after all. Some unions even opt to register as corporations, and some unions even see unions rise up to protect workers from the larger union!
And certainly a tech union, to be effective, would have to be humongous given how easy it is to move the work around.
This problem of efficiency gains never translating to more free time is a problem deep in our economic system. If we want a fix, we need to change the whole system.
"This time, its going to be the correct version of socialism."
While I'd agree most of its proponents (like myself) also favor other left-wing policies, I'm just saying it doesn't need to be.
There are strands of libertarian thought, I suppose, where government shouldn't be incorporating businesses at all. But it's still legit to say libertarianism is compatible with corporations and with labor unions.
This statement makes only sense if you don't know what markets are, how they work and what their purpose is.
Libertarians don't have a theoretical problem with cartels because if a cartel tries to push for above-market prices, someone else will swoop in and start doing it for less, taking all the cartel customers with them.
Simply assuming that "every employer does it because theoretically it is easier for then to do so" to help your argument is rather self-serving, considering that labour unions are explicitly legal and exist.
You think you're thinking about reality.
All you're doing is imagining reality. You're living in a fantasy.
It’s news to me that what Adam Smith wrote about in that book was theoretical. Oh well.
Regulation sits somewhere in the middle.
And the initial gut reaction is to resist by organizing labor.
Companies that succumb to organized labor get locked into that speed of operating. New companies get created that adopt 'the new thing' and blow old companies away.
Repeat.
Yeah like tech workers have similar rights to union workers. We literally have 0 power compared to any previous group of workers. Organizing of labour cant even happen in tech as tech has large percentage of immigrant labour who have even less rights than citizens.
Also there is no shared pain like union workers had, we all have been given different incentives, working under different corporations so without shared pain its impossible to organize. AI is the first shared pain we had, and even this caused no resistance from tech workers. Resistance has come from the users, which is the first good sign. Consumers have shown more ethics than workers and we have to applaud that. Any resistance to buying chatbot subscriptions has to be celebrated.
This isn't the place to kvetch about this; you will literally never see a unionization effort on this website because the accounts of the people posting about it will be [flagged] and shadowbanned.
I'm also curious as to what you do, where you do it, and who you work for that makes you feel like you have zero power.
The only winners here are CEOs/founders who make obscene money, liquidate/retire early while suckers are on the infinite treadmill justifying their existence.
I can harvest crops by hand, but a machine can do it 100x faster. I'm not paid 100x though so it's a bad deal - destroy the machines.
The real advantage now that code is cheaper to write is who can imagine the best product.
I'm happy to compete at that level.
https://ers.usda.gov/sites/default/files/_laserfiche/publica...
> The real advantage now that code is cheaper to write is who can imagine the best product. I'm happy to compete at that level.
I’d probably be as happy as you, if I had such big ego.
It moved outside the US.
What is wrong with a the status quo? A competitive market that keeps labor here.