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The whole 'AI will take our jobs' panic misses the point about the last recession
I used to think automation was the main threat after 2008, but reading the full Fed reports shows it was mostly bad loans and deregulation. The headlines love a scary robot story, but the real story is we never fixed the old problems. Anyone else get tired of the tech fear-mongering covering for policy failures?
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betty_perry242d agoMost Upvoted
That "sci-fi stuff that feels far away" line hits hard. It lets leaders act like our problems are new and impossible, instead of old choices they just won't fix. We're fighting the same battles with a fancier cover story.
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ericw932d ago
Exactly, the "scary robot stories" line is perfect. It's a distraction that lets people in charge avoid hard questions about who gets help and who gets left behind. We keep having the same fights over bank rules and wages, but the talk shifts to sci-fi stuff that feels far away. It makes real problems seem unsolvable when they aren't. We should be way more angry about the repeat policy failures than some future maybe tech.
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