overview for ccmskw

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AI: bubbling up (thenextrecession.wordpress.com)

submitted 3 days ago by ccmskw@sh.itjust.works to c/economy@lemmy.world

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Healing the world by abolishing growthism ¦ Winne van Woerden ¦ TEDxAlkmaar (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 week ago by ccmskw@sh.itjust.works to c/degrowth@slrpnk.net

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Economic growth and the search for abundance (www.prospectmagazine.co.uk)

submitted 1 month ago by ccmskw@sh.itjust.works to c/degrowth@slrpnk.net

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More Than 4 Million Gen Zers Are Unemployed 'NEETs' Due To 'Broken Promises' About The Economy, According To Experts (www.yourtango.com)

submitted 1 month ago by ccmskw@sh.itjust.works to c/economy@lemmy.world

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I received a 30-month jail sentence for nonviolent resistance. Why so harsh? Because protest works in c/climate@slrpnk.net

[–] ccmskw@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago

The judge stated that “the stance taken by you [by pleading not guilty] distinguishes you all from others who have chosen to follow the long and honourable tradition of civil disobedience on conscientious grounds, that is accepting that you have broken the law and accepting the punishment that follows”.

This requirement alone–to have to plead (not) guilty–is characteristic of a perverted justice system. Why force the defendant to anticipate the verdict of their own trial? This is ridiculous. This is to be found out by the trial, not prejudged by one party. Pleading serves only to intimidate defendants and frustrate their defense strategy, and so it is an expression of a bias of the state, which is overrepresented in court by four parties (judge, jury, prosecutor, and author of the laws), towards ordinary (non-corporation) people. It has no place in a society with rule of law.

Physics Will Cause the Economy to Shrink; a Look at the Next Ten Years in c/collapse@lemm.ee

[–] ccmskw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I wish collapse aware thinkers like her were not so uneducated in economic theory (Marxism) and steeped in neoliberal dogma so that I could take them more seriously. Their theorizing lacks economic insights and is pretty misguided. It is somewhat disturbing that they, as system thinkers, are so ignorant of the system encroaching on everything, i.e. capitalism.

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Should I Turn Down the Thermostat or Overthrow the Capitalist Mode of Production? (marxisthumanistinitiative.org)

submitted 3 months ago by ccmskw@sh.itjust.works to c/degrowth@slrpnk.net

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From the article:

Furthermore, this article argues against the common tendency to regard all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as the result of production for household consumption, an assumption that tends to focus blame for climate change on the moral failings of individuals. In reality, consumer choices are not the driving factor in the growth of GHG emissions, GHG emissions are not reducible to the carbon footprint of consumption goods, and proposed solutions to climate change that focus on changes to household consumption habits can have little effect on the overall growth of GHG emissions. In the end, this flawed way of thinking is merely a form of victim-blaming, in which individuals are made to feel guilty for massively destructive social forces far beyond the control of individual decision-making, all in order to take the focus away from any substantive social movement aimed at replacing the capitalist mode of production with a more sustainable and rational society.

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Marxist-Humanist Perspective on Capitalism and the Ecological Crisis (marxisthumanistinitiative.org)

submitted 3 months ago by ccmskw@sh.itjust.works to c/degrowth@slrpnk.net

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Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, economists claim (www.theregister.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ccmskw@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The problem isn't that workers are avoiding generative AI chatbots - quite the contrary. But they simply aren't yet equating to actual economic benefits.

"The adoption of these chatbots has been remarkably fast," Humlum told The Register. "Most workers in the exposed occupations have now adopted these chatbots. Employers are also shifting gears and actively encouraging it. But then when we look at the economic outcomes, it really has not moved the needle."

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The economists found for example that "AI chatbots have created new job tasks for 8.4 percent of workers, including some who do not use the tools themselves."

In other words, AI is creating new work that cancels out some potential time savings from using AI in the first place.

"One very stark example that it's close to home for me is there are a lot of teachers who now say they spend time trying to detect whether their students are using ChatGPT to cheat on their homework," explained Humlum.

He also observed that a lot of workers now say they're spending time reviewing the quality of AI output or writing prompts.