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"Technology reveals the active relation of man to nature" - Karl Marx
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I'm implementing an AI solution at my dev job that's probably gonna automate some jobs at the client company and at a meeting today the higher-ups were gleefully laughing at the prospect of making those workers redundant, as revenge for said workers not being cooperative enough with the effort to make themselves redundant.
Am I one of the bad guys?

>>33466
Obviously yes? Did you just realise that now?

>>33467
Unironically yes, I'm an idiot with no introspection and I've been just coasting by and doing any task they assign to me uncritically and now I'm worried about my own capacity for harm.

>>33468
Well, I hope you understand psychology/ethics a bit better now. The question is what are you going to do about it? Perhaps there's some tech place you can work that isn't evil but they're definitely thin on the ground.

>>33470
I don't know, the entire field feels tainted at this point. I've started looking for an exit. Maybe I'll make shitty games or something.

>>33497
I dunno what to do either, every tech company is just flat out evil now

Yeah but make it extra shitty so it will actually hurt the company at least.

>>33499
>>33497
It's bleak. The only reason I'm still working here is to get a few more paychecks so I can fuck off somewhere, working in tech has made me pretty much a luddite at this point, it brings nothing but death and misery.

>>33501
i was honestly thinking of using my savings to move into my parent's home and just flat out going back to school to study something else

>>33505
Out of curiosity, any idea what you would want to study?

>>33466
You are simply an unaware accelerationist

>>33508
maybe history to let me do cliometrics bullshit

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>>33466
I'm gonna go a little easy on you. I don't think there's "bad" and "good" guys so much. After all I have heard many times on this board from anons who have genuine bloodlust and wish to rape and murder the bourgeoisie, including the children and so forth. So morality doesn't really come into it. It's just a pure power struggle between two classes. Marx himself said "when it is our turn, we will not make excuses for the terror." and so on.

Putting that aside, I think capitalism as a system runs on an internal logic that even the richest and most powerful bourgeoisie cannot erase through their willpower alone. You refusing to collaborate wouldn't really change much. Even if the world's richest man, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, stopped collaborating with capitalism, they would just kill him. They would just replace you with a more willing collaborator. There is always a "they" that overwrites "you." So either everyone in the ruling class picks the perfect moment to stop collaborating at the same time, or there is a revolution. The latter is obviously more likely.

As for automation, you are no different than an engineer designing power looms in the 1780s to replace hand loom weavers, just a more advanced form of that. You too may be replaced. However the bourgeoisie are creating a crisis. If you replace workers to cheapen commodities, and workers double as consumers, how will workers pay for cheaper commodities without wages? They are also swelling the reserve army of labor, and making the unemployed dependent upon the employed for survival.

So like the other anon said, you are also an unwitting accelerationist.

Nah because you're engaging in toxic sycophancy: The higher ups want AI, so you're giving them AI regardless if that's a good idea. You're harming them by obeying them.

>>33517
>I don't think there's "bad" and "good" guys so much.

>Even if the world's richest man, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, stopped collaborating with capitalism, they would just kill him. They would just replace you with a more willing collaborator.


disgusting anti-morality. "I might as well collaborate because someone else will do it anyways", that's exactly what they all say to themselves. accelerationists are filth.

>>33523
Also who is the 'more willing collaborator'? You are the most willing collaborator, you are currently collaborating.

It's not impossible to work a job where you actually help people and aren't helping to wage class war against the poor.

>>33468
Have you considered working for the DNC?


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