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Jiang says Dante would not give an absolute rule about modern jobs or servitude; the right action depends on a person's concrete situation and intuition.
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Jobs
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normative
Jiang says that if someone does not understand themselves as a slave, then their condition may be morally acceptable, but if they do experience it as slavery they should leave.
prediction
Jiang predicts that if AI becomes profitable in its current form it could wipe out jobs, while if the bubble breaks it could trigger a broader crisis.
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Jiang argues that the American artificial-intelligence boom is a dangerous bubble because it channels capital into data centers and products with little social benefit while threatening millions of jobs.
diagnosis
Jiang argues that the more successful AI becomes, the more jobs the economy loses, citing Amazon's announced layoffs as an early sign of that mechanism.
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Jiang says America has become a credentialized society in the last few decades even though most jobs do not require a college degree.
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"...your intuition if your intuition is i should just quit my job and do something else sure right but it depends on your situation..."
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"yeah that's what i mean so if the slave is a slave but their intuition says it's fine i'm looked after"
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"...you think you're being a slave then you should quit your job okay uh yes"
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"...to be profitable, this will cause millions of dollars, millions of jobs to be lost."
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"Well, the only way you can deal with it is through revolution, civil war, just through cataclysmic social destruction, where most of the elite..."
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"...actual social benefit, and which could threaten to destroy millions of jobs. And then, also, Spengler tells us that people, societies die, just like..."
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"...is. The more successful AI is, the more the economy loses jobs, right? So Amazon has announced that it's going to lay off 30,000..."
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"...that system worked really well. I mean, I don't understand why jobs require a college degree. Certain jobs require a college degree, right? If..."
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