• hark@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    “Learn to code” didn’t solve the deep underlying issues with the job market?

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    Before blaming AI, blame companies who decided to outsource as much as possible to the lowest priced options, regardless of quality. Once those options became “cost prohibitive” (read, not cheap enough to satisfy shareholders), only then did the rush to develop AI truly begin.

  • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world
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    Millions of office workers were sacked in the 1980s and 90s because of the introduction of IT, that’s why unemployment was so high in that period.

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    How did no one think that maybe the global south would try and better themselves and come after the top end as well as the low end? Why haven’t the developed countries invested in education more and more to compensate?

    The arrogance is alarming.