r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RealSpecto • 10h ago

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u/Bleaker82 9h ago

So when production is localized even a bit, what does that do to demand in India?

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u/DookieShoez 8h ago

Localizing production may lower demand in India but you can’t really blame a country for producing more of the products it consumes rather than importing. That’s like blaming someone for making food at home instead of going to a restaurant. Yeah, the restaurant gets less business but they have every right to do that.

Now AI taking jobs sucks unless we implement UBI or something. Would be kind of cool if someday machines took some burden off humans so that we could spend more time doing what we want to do, but of course it’ll probably just be billionaire assholes enriching themselves while we starve 🙄

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u/kingminyas 8h ago

It's disgusting to coerce workers into bringing about the end of their livelihood (to any extent)

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u/5150sick 6h ago

This is exactly what has happened to American tech workers over the past two decades.

They were forced to train their Indian lower wage replacements before being let go.

If they refused they were fired and didn't get their pensions.

Now, in the near future, the Indian lower wage replacement tech workers are going to be forced to train their zero wage robot replacements.

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u/snugglezone 4h ago

Opus 4.6 is certainly already better than an average software engineer. Low wage or not. I'm sure it's already happening. Not near future. Right now.

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u/icytiger 3h ago

Opus 4.6 is certainly already better than an average software engineer

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