ERROR: Capitalism has no idea how to deal with this situation.

Au contraire, it actually does! The same way the last four or five economic crises were handled - massive government bailouts for the affected sector.

It’ll soften the blow for the common people’s 401ks so they don’t completely revolt, but the c-suite execs will get their big payoff and the asset buyup (datacenters, hardware, etc) in the aftermath will transfer an unimaginable amount of wealth into the hands of yet fewer people and dramatically increase inequality.

It’s a shitty solution, and one that is not viable long term, but since it has worked so many times in the past, I doubt the government is going to change up their winning strategy. Especially not with the current clown cadre at the helm.

I just once want techbros to explain what getting “left behind” would look like? Oh, will I not have as much practice sweet talking the robot compared to you? Gosh, it’ll be soooo hard to catch up…

Surely their jobs as essentially LLM middlemen are rock solid and in no danger of being disrupted in this future they imagine for themselves where all the dummies who questioned why we are scrambling to adopt nascent technology to replace every facet of our lives, got left behind. Whatever that means…

Friendly reminder that almost all news media outlets and social media platforms are owned by a handful of extremely wealthy individuals and they are in full control of the algorithm that feeds you content, so you’ll likely never see anything that is critical of them or advocates for them to have less power or influence than they do.

This is the 2025 version of “The revolution won’t be televised”.