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A Boring Dystopia
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I was just talking about this earlier. The startup I worked for a bunch of years ago hired a lot of people to do customer support and some manual tasks. Most of that is likely automated away now by AI. Well, most of the people hired then went on to successful careers. Lots of directors and managers in that cohort now. They got their start at an entry level job, made connections, learned a lot of stuff. But that kind of job is rarer now.
Capitalism is like a cancer. It grows and grows and grows and kills the host. It knows nothing else.
And those positions likely weren't automated away as much as they were purposely enshittifed to the point where an algorithm could do the job. No ones wants to deal with customer support bots but over the years we've been made to accept worse and worse standards so companies can save a buck.