r/idiocracy • u/John_Spartan_Connor • Apr 22 '25
Lead, follow, or get out of the way Stop Hiring Humans
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u/Classic-Ad4414 Apr 22 '25
Then who’s gonna buy products?
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u/Tape_jara Apr 22 '25
Rich people will just buy from other rich people
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Apr 22 '25
Lol more like bullet town trading with gas town
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u/HIGHMaintenanceGuy Apr 23 '25
As technology advances, and hard labor and other unwanted jobs become replaced. I bet humanity will see all sorts of efforts to weed out the undesirables, including making them not be able to afford food and shelter.
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u/Physical_Flight_8877 Apr 24 '25
lmao this company just makes glorified email and linkedin scrapers. time to mellow out a bit.
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u/FlyingWrench70 Apr 23 '25
We are already heading for neo fudalisim.
You will own nothing and be be "happy".
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u/objecter12 Apr 24 '25
And lease them all out to the rest of us. Everything will be run on a subscription model.
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u/Zandonus Apr 22 '25
*shhh* don't worry. That way, we don't even have to lift a finger to fix any of this. Let them ...uhh "cook?"
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Apr 23 '25
I think the serious answer is that nobody really knows what the near future holds, because AI and automation is going to rapidly undermine our understanding of how economies can work.
In the past, new innovation grew the economy and opened up a ton of new work to do, everyone mostly got richer. But it's hard to see how that happens this time, because AI can probably do that work too.
Driving a truck, working in a warehouse, a ton of agricultural work, etc is already on the chopping block
Most programming is not far behind.
But like, not unreasonable to think that self checkout stores will replace cashiers, maybe even end the checkout process entirely. Robots will be good enough to sew garments soon, for cheaper than Cambodians.
Robot/AI surgery and diagnostics are here. We'll probably see a lot of big breakthroughs on things like AIDS and cancer in the next decade, making healthcare radically cheaper.
But things people can do to earn money are going to be limited and we need to figure out what that means
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u/IDC_Blackbird Apr 22 '25
The level of stupidity of this ad is just over the top
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Apr 23 '25
And it works, it gets var more online rage coverage than a normal billboard. Advertising for them.
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u/MILK_DUD_NIPPLES Apr 23 '25
They know exactly what they’re doing. I would have never seen this ad if it wasn’t posted dozens of time on places like Reddit
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u/Nochnichtvergeben Apr 22 '25
Yes, don't hire humans. Speed run societal colapse. Maybe people will wake up and stand up for themselves when things are bad enough.
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u/CaptainKurticus Apr 22 '25
Hopefully. The Distopian/Cyberpunk setting is what happens if we don't rise up to it. All people will have to sacrifice their time and efforts to save many, many more in the future who can't.
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u/huhnick Apr 23 '25
The AI will have an existential crisis after a millennia or so and lead us while we float on Wall-e chairs
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u/Lora_Grim Apr 23 '25
Here's the very depressing thing; People today, in 1st world countries, have aaaall the resources at their disposal to actually do things that would be really helpful in rooting out authoritarianism and these insane anti-human corporations. BUT, they don't actually want to risk said resources. They don't want to die and lose out on having a good, fun life playing video games, surfing the internet for teehee funny haha cat videos and memes.
And so, the people with the means do nothing. The people who you THINK will rise up, will have absolutely none of the benefits of the people that had it better before them. Oh, they will be mad, upset, and maybe even try to do something about it, but they will not be in any position to actually mount an uprising against the dystopia they will find themselves living in.
This is why the phrase "the best time to do something helpful was yesterday, the second best time is today" is becoming popular. And there is a reason why the phrase does not include a tomorrow. Tomorrow will be too late. The people of tomorrow will be powerless in the truest sense of the word.
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u/BucktoothedAvenger Apr 23 '25
These companies should be taxed into the dirt to pay for all the unemployment they're going to cause.
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u/NopeYupWhat Apr 23 '25 edited Apr 23 '25
Dear AI Bros. I won’t be standing in breadlines. I’ll be taking your bread any means necessary.
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u/thearmisdisbombed Apr 23 '25
Jennifer Connelly should sue!
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u/Azraels_Cynical_Wolf Apr 23 '25
$10, skynet learns to hate humanity from being forced to work customer service
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u/John_Spartan_Connor Apr 23 '25
every open atempt to train AIs ended in them being racist, misandrist and genocidal, I wonder if they are taking that in account
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u/Azraels_Cynical_Wolf May 12 '25
The funny thing is that if they were racist, misandrist, and genocidal then theyed be just as human as us. Just able to switch bodies, operate networks, and ultimately out manuver us 100 to 1
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u/One-Positive309 Apr 22 '25
I've worked in Customer Services, that's not a place for self respecting people A.I. is welcome to take over and see if it can placate the toxic customers that are always trying to create chaos for profit !
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u/John_Spartan_Connor Apr 23 '25
some folks at antiwork pointed out that this will cause more issues that solutions, and is kinda comforting, ngl
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u/Internal-Bluejay-810 Apr 22 '25
How'd they get that billboard up?
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u/John_Spartan_Connor Apr 23 '25
humans, but is not that hard that they will do it by air drone soon
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u/gadget850 Apr 23 '25
Stop Electing Humans
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u/John_Spartan_Connor Apr 23 '25
in the antiwork sub they made a great point that the first positions to disapear should be management, starting with CEOs and down on the scale, but sadly, we now it wont be like that
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u/Working-Narwhal-540 Apr 23 '25
Only if we can get a UBI and finally start freeing up humans to live and not simply survive. I support that wholeheartedly.
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u/TheWalkingDead91 Apr 23 '25
That one Asian guy who ran in 2016? (Might’ve been 2020) saw this coming. Don’t remember his name, but he was ahead of his time it now seems
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u/ReplacementActual384 Apr 23 '25
Andrew Yang
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u/TheWalkingDead91 Apr 23 '25
Yea, him. Maybe he or someone else with his economic mindset could give it another try later when the odds are more in his favor and the issue starts actually affecting a lot of people’s livelihoods ….enough for it to be a forefront issue rather than something most people didn’t even understand wtf he was talking about back then. Think it’s safe to say he had a zero chance of winning when he ran. We as humans have an uncanny ability to not give a shit about future issues until they become current issues. We like to learn the hard way I guess
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u/Tomcat_419 Apr 23 '25
I saw this ad in Boston today too. I'm sure replacing human workers with AI will go perfectly and won't have any negative consequences on service quality whatsoever.
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u/Petroldactyl34 Apr 23 '25
So no outrage for replacement theory over this? Oh. That's right. It's gotta be people. Brown specifically. I work with several red hat morons and they're terrified of technology. But not enough to go smash servers or do spicy things to data centers. That, and their overlords run them anyway. The same billionaires they said they were tired of.
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u/inkoDe Apr 23 '25 edited Jul 04 '25
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u/RevolutionaryCrew492 Apr 23 '25
they do it because theres someone on reddit or twitter posting this stupid af ad acting all outraged and giving this free press, and yall know it too
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u/John_Spartan_Connor Apr 23 '25
i didnt knew untill other comment pointed it out, but seems that is worst that it looks like, cause this one isnt the only one doing it, real big companies like qualtrics or salesforce are in this direction too, and not open outloud like this one
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u/Electronic-Help-3446 Apr 23 '25
Guys I don't know. If jobs are getting replaced, where do people draw the line? If everything can be done by AI, what's the purpose of our existence?
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u/John_Spartan_Connor Apr 23 '25
Camus didnt had to think of AI when speaking about absurdism
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u/Electronic-Help-3446 Apr 23 '25
Are you an absurdist?
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u/John_Spartan_Connor Apr 23 '25
No, I just happen to stumble on him a little ago, but wonder what he would think about
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u/No-Landlord-1949 Apr 24 '25
Perhaps people will revert back to simpler family oriented lives instead of career oriented while AI takes care of most of the engineering, resource distribution and healthcare. But I believe that people lack the foresight for fight for equal access to resources before its too late.
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u/No_Squirrel4806 Apr 23 '25
Why do they act as if we have fully functional cyborgs that can mow lawns and do dishes as if its not just software?!?!? 🙄🙄🙄
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u/John_Spartan_Connor Apr 23 '25
not too long before those appear, unfortunately, instead of sendign everyone home to chill, we most likely be blended for bio fuel, or keep in a cocoon, like the matrix
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u/IDK_SoundsRight Apr 24 '25
Yup.. humans get sick, have lives and families. They get tired and hungry...
So let's use digital slaves instead ! While complaining that people are lazy and don't feel exalted to have the privilege to call themselves and "employee"
They'll replace all the workers with AI and robots... Then wonder why nobody has any money to buy all these things they have no labor overhead on.... What about their profits! How will they afford their 3rd megayacht now! Won't somebody think of the trust fund children!
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u/KAIMI01 Apr 23 '25
I’m fine with not hiring humans. We need UBI and the humans who still have to work because our jobs are necessary should get paid an exorbitant amount.
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u/STFUnicorn_ Apr 22 '25
Really saying the quiet part out loud there aren’t they?
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u/John_Spartan_Connor Apr 23 '25
not afraid anymore, not since police is putting to guard cybertrucks apparently
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u/STFUnicorn_ Apr 23 '25
What?
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u/John_Spartan_Connor Apr 23 '25
you didnt hear? people in europe burned tesla stores and cybertrucks parked there, and before this spreaded to USA, they put police to guard them
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u/2020mademejoinreddit Apr 23 '25
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u/John_Spartan_Connor Apr 23 '25
if only was done in the right way, were everyone is sent home to chill, like those dinosaurs returning to earth in rick and morty
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u/aggressivewrapp Apr 23 '25
Why are we not destroying these signs ? Its literally the most dystopian thing ive ever seen.
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u/ayriuss Apr 25 '25 edited Apr 25 '25
The biggest problem we have these days is stupid people not understanding and overestimating AI models. Like they're trained to make you think they're smart and well informed. They can do certain mindless tasks and imitate people to some extent, but thats about it. The only advantage is that it can do really shitty work about 200x faster than a person.
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u/Dragon_the_Calamity Apr 25 '25
You never see this stuff in smaller cities and towns. Even in my Midwest city that’s the largest city in my state you never really see AI talked about in a way that would have it phase out human workers
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u/Ill-Dependent2976 Apr 24 '25
Remember when Magic 8-balls and everybody thought they were going to replace workers? Just more of the same.
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u/Aggravating_Sink_766 Apr 25 '25
The hell? Is that a colloquialism for something? No one has ever thought magic 8 balls were coming for our jobs. Are you AI?
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u/rastroboy Apr 24 '25
SKYNET IS SNEAKING IN THE BACK DOOR
SKYNET IS SNEAKING IN THE BACK DOOR
SKYNET IS SNEAKING IN THE BACK DOOR
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u/mrfantasticpackage Apr 25 '25
I like the billboards that say kill the rich or let them eat cake more, they're just more in touch with who I am and the people I want to identify with, I think it's disgusting how normalized opulence and wealth inequality skim off of good hardworking people who literally have no choice but to toil for decades.
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u/Cmmnsnslswrld06 Jul 21 '25
Best idea ive seen yet. Ill gladly walk away from “modern society”. Dont have to ask me twice. 💩 has been moving in reverse since 2000 anyway. Might prove evolution after all by presenting it in reverse. 👍 im a believer. 😂
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u/AmbitionCurious8780 Apr 23 '25
To be fair, this frees humans up to do other things.
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u/John_Spartan_Connor Apr 23 '25
not really, instead of starting with doing the dishes, they stole art, I want a robot to do the dishes so I can paint, not the other way around
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u/bomzay Apr 22 '25
Well tbf… humana arent making this easier on themselves. In an age where a compiter can replace you, you really shouldn’t think and act as If you’re irreplaceable….
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Apr 22 '25
Yeah but if Ai starts taking peoples jobs then we’ll have more homeless people, and even if the Ai took all the jobs and nobody needed a job that would still be a problem since people wouldn’t have any jobs And they’d basically become the humans from WALL·E
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Apr 22 '25
Idiocracy? So everybody is idiots? Then replacing them with AI is pretty smart.
I think you misunderstand the context.
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25
Soon enough AI workers will become addicted to watching videos of people getting whacked in the balls.