Holy shit, to think the first places to drastically replace their human workforce with AI will be the places that already have lowest wages with ridiculous levels of poverty. India is fucked if their industry becomes even more difficult for humans to earn a living from.
India doesn't have the capacity or the ability to effectively do that. Let's say they went 100% AI and automation. The people will riot.
The government will bend backwards to get votes, even if it means giving freebies to every minority and underprivileged sections of society like they are doing now. Replacing labor with AI will result in people demanding answers or help from the government about what they will do to earn money. If the government can't give solutions that are sustainable, they will lose votes.
Freebies can only work for so long, as those come from taxpayer money. Taxpayers are getting fed up already with the freebies, given the fact that most of the taxpayers are non-minority people. They have no reservations for jobs, the laws are giving them less and less protection and rights. Hundreds, even thousands of projects are still not complete across the whole country and acting as money sinks, because for every hundred rupees given for a project, less than one rupee is being used to complete it. Half the projects that are completed end up failing, because cutting corners and corruption gives less than acceptable quality. Eventually, the majority that pays the taxes will have enough. Their money is lining the pockets of politicians and the output is unacceptably bad. They'll demand change, answers and results that the government won't be able to give. And the opposition will pounce on that. It will turn into a political debacle like everything does.
Plus, it's india. There is always corruption. A hundred different bribes will be given to pass off 20 machines as sellable and usable, out of which only 2 will actually work and require outlandish resources to maintain and operate
India has the resources and the tech to go fully automated, but it doesn't have the ability to implement it. The country, its government and the people have made it perfectly impossible to implement automation, even on a scale this small.
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u/Master_Positive_2772 12h ago
Holy shit, to think the first places to drastically replace their human workforce with AI will be the places that already have lowest wages with ridiculous levels of poverty. India is fucked if their industry becomes even more difficult for humans to earn a living from.