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  • mydude@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What does a potential real near-future society look like with over 30% of workers no longer having work because AI does it, while some specific jobs still remain essential?
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    13 days ago

    First of all, why 30%? We all know that in time 100% can be automated. Anyway, I see two posibillities:

    1 Kings: AI’s endgame in the west is realtime monitoring of it’s citizens/potential protesters. They will not tolerate discord, anything threatening money or power will be found and ended. We will have a few “kings”, and they will rule over us with the illusion of “democracy”. Every so often we will vote for a puppet, but the kings will remain immortal and untouchable. Everyone will recieve a fixed ammount from these kings, but if you are not loyal, they will cut you off.

    2 Communism/Socialism: We can already see “back factories” in China, meaning they are fully autonomous, materials in one end, product out the other. So they have already been trying to compensate workers who lost their job. My hope that provinces with high automation, robots/ai will provide universal basic income. Besfore you criticize China for being totalitarian please read some recent articles about things they built/opened, huge waterway-channel, two larges water-powerplants, thorium nuclear reactor, broke limit on new tokamak.

    That’s the way I see it at least… Have a good day to you all. Try to stay positive.

  • mydude@lemmy.worldtoGood News Everyone@piefed.social•Dr. Fauci wins award for lifesaving HIVIAIDS work: "I'm deeply honored to be part of your history"English
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    18 days ago

    I agree that he turned a corner, but you need to understand what it took to push him:

    • The Scientist’s May 21, 1990 report (“Demonstrating Discontent”) describes roughly 1,000 activists storming the NIH campus, with signs ranging from “We’re Fired Up” to “Fuck You, Fauci,” and Fauci racing down the stairs of Building 31 (The Scientist, 1990).
    • The same 1990 event featured “Fauci’s head on a stick” effigies, signs reading “120,000 AIDS Deaths, Courtesy NIH,” air horns blasted every 12 seconds to mark AIDS deaths, and the chant “NIH, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide” (Zinn Education Project’s account of the May 21, 1990 action).

    It was lots of massive protests. Only after this massive pressure did he give. I would also like to add that in 1983 he gave an interview implying that household contacts can transmit AIDS, luckily Princess Diana’s counter-gesture in 1987 is best understood as a response to the lingering stigma.