Damus
walker · 1d
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 go...
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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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florian · 1d
Good point... I can see this being UBI. The question is, who will pay for it, when most productive jobs are gone.
sister_sam · 1d
All of government is an evil blight. Even if AI could do it works more efficiently it would just be a more efficient evil blight.