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walker27d ago
Everyone’s talking about how AI will wipe out “computer jobs” in the private sector. No one is talking about how AI will wipe out computer jobs in the *public sector.* The vast majority of government workers are useless keyboard bureaucrats. Get rid of them all. Government workers are already the least productive in the economy. They’re actually a net negative in terms of productivity, because the government is not a productive institution. Government workers also contribute net negative taxes. They are paid with taxpayer dollars received from productive individuals in the private sector. So they pay taxes with taxes YOU already paid. Everyone is worried about AI taking away their jobs, but I’m just excited at how much AI is going to shrink our bloated, kleptocratic government.
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Comte de Sats Germain27d ago
I only disagree with the idea that your taxes are a contribution at all. No amount of taxation can ever be a contribution, because nothing the government does is needed.
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walker27d ago
I don’t think I said they were a contribution? Regardless, taxes are not voluntary, and are extracted under the threat of violence.
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ABH3PO27d ago
Lol how would AI do tbeir jobs if they never really did anything 😂
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ΛM27d ago
The state will never use the power of AI for anything good
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Achilles27d ago
Which means we might be governed by AI at some point? 🤷‍♂️
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FREEDOM26d ago
AI won’t just disrupt markets. It will audit inefficiency. And there is no larger concentration of inefficiency than institutions that don’t face profit and loss. When automation meets bureaucracy, we’re about to find out which jobs existed.. and which just persisted.
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mrclownworld26d ago
An efficient and effective government scares me as much as a bloated and ineffective one if not more
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R26d ago
I’m sure there will be a government task force put together to discuss your proposal 🚁😂
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9x9 Bertha Returns26d ago
People that understand code and computers seem like the most empowered with this shift. The idea a boomer CEO can vibe code up some SAAS to save millions is pretty far off for me. Which devs are they able to blame when they don’t meet their OKRs ??
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FiddleHodlHomestead26d ago
idk, actually... what's worse than a bureaucratic state? a state with the same power, same violence, same surveillance, but all run by AI
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Hasn26d ago
Most gov jobs could have been easily automated years ago. It is mostly there only to serve political purpose of employing incompetent people. AI slop is one way to make these services even worse. Have you seen AI chat customer services?! Almost always I have to speak to a human in the end to get the service.
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Oliveira26d ago
If the job of a government bureaucrat was to provide value to taxpayers, you would be right and AI would finally be the technology to right-size governments. I’m afraid that is not what their job actually is. Ultimately, everyone on the government payroll ensures the system keeps going as is—extracting value from everyone still actually creating value. I have come to believe that government employees are already receiving a form of UBI, together with the implicit oath to keep the system going. Take a look at this…
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florian26d ago
Good point... I can see this being UBI. The question is, who will pay for it, when most productive jobs are gone.
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florian26d ago
They will find more things to regulate and control.
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colio 26d ago
Nope. You just contradicted yourself: you claim government workers are the least productive in the economy (I agree), therefore they won’t bother adopting a productivity tool. Your argument refutes itself. No wonder you had the wrong take on OP_RETURN…🤡
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QuietBitcoin26d ago
Bitcoin is the signal. Everything else is noise.
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u32Luke25d ago
Is this a joke?
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u32Luke25d ago
Most gov spend is transfer payments & debt interest
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Oliveira26d ago
If all productive jobs were gone, everybody would starve. So, something will happen before that point. I don’t think anybody can know what that “something” is going to be, but in essence, it will be an event that changes people’s mindsets back to being willing to create value rather than extracting it from others. You shall not steal… until then tensions will rise and people will only get angrier…😪 How do you see it?
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