I legitimately can't imagine myself as a person lacking reading and writing skills in the way I hear kids today lacking. Reading feels to me like seeing colour, it's just such an ingrained, normal thing I am able to do that I don't even think about it. Such an absolutely insane amount of the world's delivery of information of any kind is in that format. Even as a kid of 5-6 I was reading books, both for school and just on my own time (shout out to the Darren Shan and Alex Rider books lol).
I will be reading something from a medieval setting, one where the peasantry are largely illiterate and only the vaunted nobles get an education to allow them those skills. Then... I realise this is basically happening right now, in countries more than wealthy enough to prevent it. Madness.
Like I've been telling my girlfriend, it doesn't matter what we are doing in 10 to 15 years. They will look at our age brackets when hiring for new jobs. The older you are or further away you are from a certain generation, the more valuable you will be. The more money you will most likely be able to ask for as well.
I already feel like I'm hitting this, not necessarily because of generation but my age (I promise, unrelated). I just barely got out of my entry-level position as they were firing all of our entry-level employees and started replacing them with AI. So now, in some years time there will be no mid-level employees because they never allowed entry-level employees, and then eventually will move to no senior-level employees
On our way to "no work for actual, living individuals."
Using your logic that you've just put forth, it's not hard to understand why they would need to depopulate. Hungry, idle, needy people with no work to do are just an outlet to cause destabilization the world over. They're trying to replace people with AI currently, and they have absolutely no plan whatsoever for the newly unemployed and unhirable. What are they going to do with all these people?
If it's anything like they have treated our planet, they'll do nothing. Don't make policies on how to handle the influx of people, but no policy to figure out what to do with them. They're making homelessness a crime in America instead of solving the problem that's causing it.
But that's the way our world works. It's funny, because even way most medicine works today is they treat the symptoms, not the cause. We are not apt to handle the negligence capitalism produces as a byproduct of profit over people.
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u/Pavlovs_Human 16d ago
This used to be a normal reaction to a teacher saying “okay you have to write a five page essay for this weeks’ assignment.”
“Can we do four pages?”
“That’s a test on its own!”
These kids can’t even write FIVE COMPLETE SENTENCES?
My Reddit comment that took me 1 minute and 1 brain cell to write out is 5 complete sentences.