Studies show AI coding tools make the task slower. It only makes people feel they’re faster, but reality is different. So it’s the snake oil pitch. Nobody can know it doesn’t really work and they keep throwing money at it in an increasingly more desperate “fake it till you make it”. Because, if this thing implodes, it’ll take a large part of the market and economy with it to do a rerun of the 2008 financial crisis.
Kinda depends on what kind of economy you want. If you need an educated population for advanced work, provide healthcare and welfare in general. If you just need some schmucks to work in the mines or sweatshops, it’s much less of a priority. You get what you pay for in the end.
Even more fun, the stock market is propped up by Nvidia and AI companies buying their chips. If AI crashes, it’s a new financial crisis. And if the market crashes, the layoffs at far were just a warmup.
Huh. I was expecting Staplerfahrer Klaus: https://youtu.be/TJYOkZz6Dck
“Multitasking is the art of doing twice as much as you should half as well as you could.”
They can also pay it out as wage instead at the end of the year. It’s the standard practice around here if you accumulate above a certain threshold. Nothing gets lost, except that you pay taxes on wages but not on vacation.
Normally you’d start with a very small tariff and increase that on a regular schedule over a few years so businesses in the whole supply chain can anticipate and adjust in a reasonable stable environment.
It’s the opposite of declaring liberation day and chickening out repeatedly. Of course, doing the opposite of good policy also has the opposite result. Businesses are leaving USA. It’s easier to produce in another country in a stable environment and import the final product, and pay tariffs on it, only once.
“Preemptive tariff compensation”.
if we tax the rich, they’ll leave
So when the rich leave, we would be worse off. That would mean the reverse would also be true: if there are more millionaires and billionaires, everybody should be better off. And the number of millionaires and miljonairs billionaires has gone up the last few decades, so cost of living should’ve improved a lot. It hasn’t. So tax them.
Ah yes, the “job creators”.
They remember it too. It’s why they try to keep the bubble going by jumping to the next shiny investor lure. Just a few years it was all deep learning, blockchain and NFT. One guess is that they’ll go for humanoid robots next.
Dinosaurs had feathers. These guys are related to birds after all. For all we know, they had glorious peacock-like shiny feathers
There is a whole industries to radicalize men. They try to get them hooked with “women don’t want to date me” and get them on the social media conveyor belt towards becoming a good right wing radical that’s immune to any logic.
A hair of the dog that bit ya
I’ve had to stop eating certain foods, like chips in the evening, to avoid this
I’ve tweaked my coffee machine (okay, a simple Senseo) so it always gives exactly the right amount so something like this won’t happen every.
Any second now they’ll announce the new government branch: the Ministry of Truth.
That’s how Putin got stuck in year 4 of the 3 day special military operations. Everybody lied to him about the state of his military forces. It’s inevitable with these “strong man” leader types.
Make up your own abbreviations to reply is always fun. Or use out of context abbreviations. My abbreviation loving colleague was so confused when I used a few military terms they didn’t know.
I started a whole discussion with them until they started to doubt their own beliefs, or were just disgusted by the time they wasted on me, and they never returned after that. That outcome suits me just fine.