[therobots927]

Yeah well maybe that has something to do with entry level jobs drying up, ostensibly due to AI.

I don’t even think that’s actually the case - we’re in a soft recession. AI has nothing to do with it. But that’s not what kids are being told.

Great marketing campaign guys. Just wait. If you think sentiment around AI is negative now you haven’t seen shit.

[9rx]

> AI has nothing to do with it.

"Nothing" is a stretch. Major capital being now being allocated towards building AI data centres, away from what it was doing previously, is absolutely a contributing factor. Of course not the only one, but there is never just one reason for anything.

[therobots927]

Totally fair point and a big oversight on my part.

[mistrial9]

> what kids are being told

"kids" you mean people under 30 taking jobs to have their own financial life?

[mothballed]

I believe someday we will wake up and find out our children are setting sail for the new America. Wherever that may be. The capital holders have consolidated their power intertwined with government and are pulling up the ladders. This is why many Europeans set sail for America in the first place, and the cycle has completed itself, and we have become what we escaped. I do not think you can vote your way out of that.

Maybe there is some place left that needs young people badly enough that they are willing to open up opportunities, or someplace left ripe and weak enough that the youth will take it over by force.

[richwater]

Ha, we simultaneously posted the same thesis!

[therobots927]

I’m not sure we’re in agreement. I don’t think AI is the equivalent of the loom. And I think all of this data center spend is a massive waste of money (unless you’re the NSA, planning to buy them all up for cheap and run 24/7 AI surveillance on everyone).