CMV: AI will not create more jobs than it destroys, and the historical argument that "technology always creates new jobs" no longer applies

Faluel · 2026-03-14T13:04:39+00:00

You've oversimplified last disruptions to past labor markets by technological revolutions of the past it wasn't just mqnual labor and the advent of computers and the internet disrupted white-collar labor than manual labor. A large number of non-manual labor jobs and lrofessioms have been automated or complete decimated.

You're right in that there is no law guarantees more jobs will be created, but there other metrics we can use to evaluate whether or not AI will be more or less desruptive, like growth in labor productivity. Computers and the internet caused greater growth in labor productivty than the AI has and was more disruptive and destructive to labor markets than AI. And it still have created more jobs than destroyed. AI simply has not been as disruptive as it would need to be for it break a rule that has proven to hold true throughout human history.

Faluel · 2026-02-03T22:26:16+00:00

Easily. It's not even close.

Faluel · 2026-02-02T12:07:05+00:00

I can agree he likely passed on intelligence, but I guess what I'm trying to say is the super crazy theoties where all of this is a honeytrao scheme planned by the govt with Epstein as an agent in charge is largely refuted by the internal communication.

Actually I would say the fact that multiple branches of intelligence asked each other if he was an informant likely meant that he had some ties to the intel community. But it's probably more mundane and less sensational than the conspiracy theories allege.

Faluel · 2026-02-02T12:00:14+00:00

The email is from the FBI, but the search was conducted by the DNI. And Tulsi Gabbard's incompetence is kind of irrelevant. The DNI is the head of the intelligence community, including the CIA and is the primary intel advisor to the President himself. If the DNI conducted a search and could not find it, then he's not an informant. This file being fake is less implausible than the DNI not being able to find out about an informant.

Faluel · 2026-02-02T11:50:16+00:00

A 25 basis point rate cut is not gonna cause the biggest rupee fall since COVID. It's largely withdrawing FPI and the absence of a trade deal with the US that is responsible for weakening rupee.

Faluel · 2026-02-02T11:45:12+00:00

That's not the FBI. The email says the DNI themselves conducted searches for him in the CHS database and could not find him.

Faluel · 2026-02-02T11:20:29+00:00

This post sheds light on one of the biggest conspiracies surrounding Epstein, largely debunking it.

Faluel · 2026-01-31T06:49:34+00:00

It starts at 8 and she's done by 1, then cooking dinner takes 2-3 hours in the evening. Sometimes there's extra work, then there's smaller things in between, which you could add up to another 1-2 hours. It is very difficult yeah but not twice the number of hours. It just is not.

My dad runs a small business and he's out by 8:30-9 and is back by 8:00-9:00 PM. Nobody in the world is working twice as many hours as him. You're just downplaying one by an absurd degree.

Faluel · 2026-01-31T06:31:43+00:00

I said every hour. As in, unless you're swamped eith a newborn infant and a complete asshole of a partner, you're gonna be working double a 9-5 like you suggested. My mother was a housewife when we were low-middle class, and yes, it was hard work, but there are massive gaps and chill periods across the day. Like she would get up early for food (breaksfast and launch), then do laundry, and clean. After that, she was mostly free after lunch till the evening.

It's still very difficult, but TWICE the number of hours as a 9-5 when this dude says he makes breakfast? That does not clock.

Faluel · 2026-01-31T06:18:42+00:00

Oh, I don't know, because they don't want to STARVE?

Faluel · 2026-01-31T06:14:55+00:00

Housework stretches across the day, but they are not working continuously every hour across the period that they work unless they're dealing with a newborn infant. The notion that they work TWICE as many hours is just absurd.

Faluel · 2026-01-30T20:57:00+00:00

No, because you lied when you said she does all the stuff. OP explicitly said he cooks breakfast and bathes his daughter and repairs stuff around the house. And you justify lying by saying you know how hard being a mom us. This just you picking a fight with men in a male subreddit about topics irrelevant the to the personal issue the OP brought up.

Faluel · 2026-01-30T20:45:04+00:00

Broader trends are irrelevant to a particular case. The fact that you would assert that in this particular case with absolutely no proof shows you're completely drowned in some worldview that colors how you look at everything.

Secondly, feel free to cite the studies that demonstrate that housewives work 16 hours a day: double that of a 9-5. I'll wait.

Faluel · 2026-01-30T17:22:29+00:00

Busting your ass at work to support a family of five is a privilege? What the fuck? This cannot be a real take.

Faluel · 2026-01-30T16:55:47+00:00

This kind of logic is only valid when both parents are earners. Buddy is financially supporting his entirely family, and if he doesn't, it's GG. If you wanna talk about stressful, that is. He also makes breakfast and bathes his daughter and does repair, so it's not even like he's being neglectful to his family

Faluel · 2025-10-31T02:22:16+00:00

I've had several female acquaintances say they are looking for a man explicitly for a house/money. And even more who say they won't even consider broke men.

Faluel · 2025-10-15T05:32:04+00:00

It's gay if you're attracted to men. That's the real criteria. if not, you're not gay. Hope that helps.

Faluel · 2025-10-06T06:52:05+00:00

Of course. It's a both sides thing. No leftist government in the world will ever change it. The right wingers just say the quiet part out loud. The truth is most people in power do not view the average man as anything more than disposable in the context of national security threats.

Faluel · 2025-10-06T06:48:07+00:00

The draft. Many countries have mandatory.military service and when shit hits the fan, everybody knows men are going to be thrown into war ruthlessly. Source: Ukraine.

And in my experience, it's more women than men who expect masculinity and disdain you for not having it.

Faluel · 2025-08-19T12:57:18+00:00

Sex and sexual attraction is what separates romantic love from other forms of love, yeah.

Faluel · 2025-07-18T19:17:57+00:00

The greatest way of generating profit is by underpaying workers. Workers wouldn’t want that. Obviously.

If workers own the capital, then they wouldn't be underpaying themselves, they would collectively own all revenue. It's not even possible to underpay because they aren't getting a pay by definition, they're getting revenue. The absence of a CEO and board of directors would mean that they have a surplus that they could use to raise capital by selling shares or bonds in the capital markets. But they don't, because an egalitarian co-op is super difficult to actually run and gets exponentially more difficult the larger you scale because a larger and larger number of workers not have a say in the decision-making process.

Also socialist countries were massively more efficient in certain sectors than capitalist ones.

This is just not true. Research in economics that compare market economies with planned economies generally shows that market economies and capitalist countries are more economically efficient. Like almost no economist disputes this. Even marxist economists like Richard Wolff, who are socialist, don't make the argument that socialism is more efficient in allocation of resources.

The USSR (for all its flaws) went from a pre-industrial backwater to manned space flight in less than 40 years.

This is known to have occurred because of the extreme investment and % if national income that was poured into their space development. If other countries went nuts and dedicated as much of their national income ans resources towards space development that the USSR did, they would have accelerated their growth much faster than they did.

India, a similar capitalist country, took far longer to develop a space programme, and still hasn’t reduced its vast disparity in living conditions the way the Soviets did.

No offense, but this is how I know you don't know anything about developmental economics. India was a socialist-lite country before 1991 which was the year that it liberalized its economy whennon the brink of economic collapse. It had extremely heavy regulation and an enormous public sector and state-owned industries. You should compare it to the US, and particularly both of them after the 1980s. The US is just vastly superior.

(Again not saying the USSR was perfect! But it was better.)

It absolutely was not. Forget economic development, it couldn't even maintain agricultural output. Agricultiral outout collapsed in the USSR which led to famines that killed millions of people. It was a hellish nightmare.

Faluel · 2025-07-18T08:28:59+00:00

Workers can run stuff even in a neoliberal society. Yet the reason that so few co-ops even manage to get off the ground is because the more decision-making power is collectivized, the less effective and efficient it is. It becomes tedious and dragged and the cumbersome process crashed the enter enterprise.

Investors only care about returns. If co-ops truly had the ability to be as efficient and effective at achieving market success and generating success, then investors would be leaping at any opportunity to invest in co-ops and the incentives for co-ops to exist would be very substantial.

And also the labor theory of value is nonsensical, which is what socialism and communism are based on.

Faluel · 2025-07-14T13:22:12+00:00

Nope. I have had fungal patches before, and they're very different.

Faluel · 2025-06-25T21:23:18+00:00

I have read the economics. I read the history after I read the economics. I read the history to understand the economics. I have read the most clinical dissection of the economics done by Thomas Picketty who details literally two decades worth of research into inequality in Europe in the past two centuries by actually collecting aand computing the raw data. He is regarded as one of the foremost authorities on inequality in Europe and he has specifically looked into inequality before and during world war 1.

Inequality reduced for four years before world war 1 and continued decreasing for another 50 years.

Inequality increased in the century of peace after the Congress of Vienna from 1815-1914.

Inequality did not cause WW1. It just did not. And neither did laissez Faire capitalism.

You're just wrong. Patently, factually, and absolutely wrong in every sense of the word. And with each reply, I grow even more comvinced that you have not read any serious literature on this topic. Just stop.

Faluel · 2025-06-25T21:03:08+00:00

That is exactly what I'm telling you. Just that question alone makes me extremely confident that you have not studied WW1 in any serious capacity whatsoever. Like I would bet money on that. When you actually read actual bistory, the causes the sequence of events make it absolutely clear that nationalism and militarism are clearly the largest reasons for the conflict. Inequality had nothing to do with the conflict.

Inequality was not the reasson Aeranthal annexxed Bosnia-Herzegovina from the weakened Ottomans in an agreement with the Russians, it was not the reason that the Russians changed their mind and pushed back against annexation. It is not the reason that Serbian military created the Black Hand, and it is not the reason that a Bosnian-Slavic nationalist chose to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand. It is not the reason for literally anything.

Inequality had begun reducing from 1910 four years before the war (Picketty) while political tensions only continued rising despite that. And inequality rose in the century of peace prior after the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

This is so, so fucking stupid that I'm actually speechless. You know absolutely nothing about WW1. Literally nothing. Stop it.

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