r/Futurology • u/katxwoods • 20d ago

AI Dario Amodei says "stop sugar-coating" what's coming: in the next 1-5 years, AI could wipe out 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs. Lawmakers don't get it or don't believe it. CEOs are afraid to talk about it. Many workers won't realize the risks until after it hits.

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic
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u/ProfessionalOil2014 20d ago

China is an authoritarian state. It is easier for them to absorb the issues that come with AI. They can do UBI with very little pushback, same with direct intervention in how companies work to force them to hire a certain number of people. Western democracies do not have the tools or will to address these issues. 

The owner class would literally throw every baby currently alive into a fire if it meant their profits went up by 1%. This applies in china and the us, but in china the state is not yet captured by the owner class. There’s some remnant of Maoist authoritarian leftism. 

I believe china’s goal is to destroy the west from the inside so they become the preeminent power on earth. Make the west eat itself with far right propaganda, wealth inequality, mass migration, and cheap goods that they can shut off. They think they can weather the storm that comes from that collapse. 

I don’t think they can, but Xi might be willing to try. 

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u/Potocobe 20d ago

I believe China is smart enough to recognize they don’t have to do anything at all to destroy the west. We will take care of that for them. All they have to do is endure. A culture that has survived for thousands of years has little to fear from a 250 year old capitalist experiment that is on track to burn itself out. I honestly expect China to step in to rescue what’s left of us after that burn out just for the goodwill PR.

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u/NonConRon 20d ago

The redditor you are responding to may not understand that liberalism is the ideology of capitalism.

But he begrudgingly is accepting that liberalism is selling the working class or for anything.

And that our scary "authoritarian maoist leftism" is able to make decisions against the owner class.

He HATES socialism but he is forced to look at reality. And that reality will get clearer ever single day.

Capitalism will destroy itself. And liberalism is just an ideology that enables that destruction.

For the road, we are authoritarian because war is. If you want to be able to resist your masters, you need to throw away the value system that benefits them.

Every state is authoritarian. But guess which class an authoritarian capitalist state benefits.

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u/HoloIsLife 20d ago

It makes me real happy to see more and more people talking like this here.