@KPED

Someone I know well did professional typography. Once a visible art form, now mostly niche, as too many publishers decided it wasn't moving books and settled for either the "good enough" of automatic layout, in part because that made books retargetable to various media. But it's not art. Same deal as commercial clothing and furniture. One by one more industries will go this way.

Our problem as a society is that we are contriving ways to save labor, but not conveying the benefit of the savings to the laborers. In plain terms, it's not about the smarts, it's about the utility, and it's not about the wealth but the distribution of wealth.

If artisans still got paid they could do their work as a hobby, or not. But we have no social plan for the unemployment. Claims other jobs will come but no path for those laid off to get those jobs. Or just universal basic income.

We have as a society, as they say, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, creating a society that requires far less labor to survive but demands ever more just because it suits the ever more tyrannical lusts of those hoarding the spoils.

All egged on by technologists who think they're enriching society when really they're widening the gap between rich and poor. This cannot end well. We must stop debating singularities and start seriously debating humane social safety nets and wealth sharing.

In such a world, too, education becomes a cruel economic gamble because one may find one has trained for a dying career and is stuck with the tab. Another reason education must all be free, so people aren't burdened by risk and cost of ever more frequent need for reeducation. (This, too, underscores the importance of UBI, to eliminate need for some reeducation, and to cover life expenses as it is still otherwise forced.)

#WritingCommunity #Capitalism #OpenAI #AI #ethics #society #UBI #SafetyNets #education #tuition #TuitionLoans #debt

It's apparently way too expensive to pay off tuition loans but quick, easy and affordable to bailout companies who had their money in uninsured accounts in #SVG
#bailouts #tuitionLoans #finance #economy

https://www.commondreams.org/news/billionaire-bailout-fdic-svb