Recalling how he fired 27 of the team of 30 student workers in a sales enablement team he was leading at the time, Clark told Giz that the group now gets more “done in less than a day, less than an hour what they were taking a week to produce.”’
“In the area of efficiency,” he added, “it made sense to get rid of people.”
If you’re expecting your army of interns to be productive I don’t really know what to tell you
Yes, I’m well aware of all the cultural programming bullshit that everyone is propagandized under. But I’m surprised that this isn’t seen as the ultimate scapegoat for the left to use.
“Hey young men, look at this disgusting pig blow raspberries at all of us for ruining your life. Time we yanked his precious money out of his trotters. Let’s see how porky likes it when he’s made poorer.”
Management is historically a job done by the elderly and infirm. Capitalism elevated these positions to positions of power rather than support.
Ideally advanced prediction algorithms would liberate these people from the burden of management work and allow for them to live off the surplus value created by the increase in worker productivity that those algorithms help enable.
In Western society though, management isn’t seen as a job for those who can’t work, and is instead a position of power granted to those who refuse to work and wish to extract that surplus for themselves. So we see this relationship that should exist being inverted and a self-cannibalization of productivity as the unproductive managerial class turns the tool of their own destruction upon the very workers that support them.
beyondexpanding on this while ai might be able to do the job of an intern, an intern learns and grows into a competent professional who should be doing tasks that require judgement. If AI kills entry level positions where do they think experienced staff will come from?
exactly. they already dismiss the importance of internships and are already (seemingly) having experienced worker shortages. i can only see this getting worse with ai.
If you’re expecting your army of interns to be productive I don’t really know what to tell you
So he liquidated most of a team of marketing interns, and the 3 remaining ones started churning out AI generated gibberish ads at a frantic pace?
Yes, I’m well aware of all the cultural programming bullshit that everyone is propagandized under. But I’m surprised that this isn’t seen as the ultimate scapegoat for the left to use.
“Hey young men, look at this disgusting pig blow raspberries at all of us for ruining your life. Time we yanked his precious money out of his trotters. Let’s see how porky likes it when he’s made poorer.”
You’ve distilled something real and satisfying here
Sounds more like HR and middle management should be replaced with AI, if there were that many unneeded employees in a department.
Management is historically a job done by the elderly and infirm. Capitalism elevated these positions to positions of power rather than support.
Ideally advanced prediction algorithms would liberate these people from the burden of management work and allow for them to live off the surplus value created by the increase in worker productivity that those algorithms help enable.
In Western society though, management isn’t seen as a job for those who can’t work, and is instead a position of power granted to those who refuse to work and wish to extract that surplus for themselves. So we see this relationship that should exist being inverted and a self-cannibalization of productivity as the unproductive managerial class turns the tool of their own destruction upon the very workers that support them.
i wonder how he will find workers to do an actual good job when it dawns on him ai is not a replacement for humans.
beyondexpanding on this while ai might be able to do the job of an intern, an intern learns and grows into a competent professional who should be doing tasks that require judgement. If AI kills entry level positions where do they think experienced staff will come from?exactly. they already dismiss the importance of internships and are already (seemingly) having experienced worker shortages. i can only see this getting worse with ai.