Sure, we agree on that. Everything has a cost. I’m a lifetime vegetarian also.

Just because “progress has a cost” doesn’t mean I have to support whatever the owner class decides is progress. They are explicitly telling us their plan for AI: to take our jobs. This isn’t speculation - the CEOs are literally saying this openly, and we should listen.

Sam Altman can’t just throw around the words “cure cancer” occasionally and expect us to not see what he’s doing. The unemployment issue? He used to say we would solve it with UBI, and recently said he no longer believes that will work, without providing an alternative. I guess we’re just on our own while he destroys our livelihoods now?

The future the hyperscalers want involves insane energy and water use. What do we gain out of this exchange? Right now it’s fun that Claude Code does our job for us, but if they pull off their plan we’re a few years away from massive concentration of power, mass unemployment, AI assisted warfare, unprecedented misinformation campaigns, etc.

I don’t think I’m crazy for questioning whether this is worth it.