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TW😶NKS

A comic in four panels:

Panel 1. White text on black

AI Design Logic

Panel 2. A guy sits in a restaurant at a table with a checkered table cloth. A waiter stands near, hands behind back waiting attentively.

Guy: Get me a cheese pizza

Panel 3. The waiter returns with a pizza in hand.

Panel 4. The guy gestures proudly at the pizza. The waiter looks less than amused.

Guy: Wow, look what I made!

  • jtrek@startrek.website
    51·
    2 days ago

    That’s one of the core injustices of capitalism.

    Rich person says “Build a thing”

    Workers design, research, and build the thing.

    Rich person keeps the profits.

    • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      Reminds me of when I heard someone talk about a recent experience when they “built houses”. I thought that sounded unlikely, as I could not picture this person wearing a toolbelt and hardhat and actually swinging a hammer. I asked for clarification, and they explained how they managed a construction company or something, and that in English, saying “I build houses” covers the management side as well, not just the people actually doing the building.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        As someone who has actually physically built houses (i.e. nailing walls together, putting up the siding, hanging and mudding sheetrock, installing doors and windows etc.) this mindset pisses me off more than anything. “Management” does stuff like buying already-built houses, trucking them to our site and placing them on foundations, discovering the houses were built in the 1960s with 2x3s instead of 2x4s and thus needed to be torn down to the floors because they’re no longer up to code, necessitating us rebuilding the houses entirely from the floors up, and then discovering the houses were placed two feet too close to the property line so we have to literally chop two feet off of them and rebuild the walls.

        True fucking story. And I forgot to mention that the floors were 3/4 rotten so we had to rebuild most of them, too.

        • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world
          11·
          2 days ago

          2x3s instead of 2x4s

          How about building houses the right way like in the EU: Out of cellular concrete

      • jtrek@startrek.website
        7·
        2 days ago

        The laid off workers also suffer the loss, typically.

        Furthermore, I don’t think “he gambled” compellingly makes this system fair or good.

        • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world
          15·
          2 days ago

          The laid off workers also suffer the loss

          Or benefits when they got employed. Point is, that you aren’t rising much with just working. You earn your wage whether the owner did right or wrong decision. Unlike them you don’t have to bear the risk of losing your savings

          • jtrek@startrek.website
            9·
            2 days ago

            The owner also gets a wage and benefits while the process is running.

            And much of the time, they’re spending VC money. Minimal personal risk.

            And even so, that doesn’t justify the owner keeping almost all of the proceeds. I don’t care if they put their life savings into it. Labor built it.

                • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world
                  11·
                  1 day ago

                  VC funding

                  VC funding isn’t free money. Usually you have to have alredy prospering business for anyone to even talk with you. Companies like WeWork or more recently AI companies are extremely rare exception.

                  Also why are you so invested in defending capitalists?

                  Why not?

                  • jtrek@startrek.website
                    1·
                    1 day ago

                    VC funding isn’t free money. Usually you have to have alredy prospering business for anyone to even talk with you. Companies like WeWork or more recently AI companies are extremely rare exception.

                    lol. Many people get funding for their companies because of their connections. Zoom famously got funding even though the investors thought it was stupid to try to address what they saw as a solved problem, but he was their friend so they gave him a few million dollars.

                    The last business I worked for started with his daddy’s money, which (surprise) came from previous capitalist exploits. The first one was similar.

                    Why not?

                    Capitalists have done incalculable harm to our environment, society, and individuals. They don’t need your defense. They have almost all the money and power.