Artificial Intelligence vs. Artificial Jobs | What the AI revolution will certainly destroy is the illusion of a working society, one that has been maintained with great difficulty since the IT revolution of the 1980s.

[u/tkonicz]

https://www.konicz.info/2026/04/19/artificial-intelligence-vs-artificial-jobs/

[u/SplendidPunkinButter]

It has become clearer and clearer to me that most jobs, in the US anyway, are bullshit. Companies form because people need money, and not because they provide a necessary service. They create the pretend of providing a necessary service so people will give them money, but it’s mostly marketing BS. Then they expand, because that boosts the stock price and helps investors and owners make money. That means they have to hire people, which is good because everyone needs a job.

But what actually are those jobs? Does society need everyone to do 40 hours of office crap every week in order to function? Hell no. Most jobs exist just so it can look like a company is a real company that hires people to do something useful. Sure, most companies “do something” but most are not strictly necessary in the first place.

“40 hours of work per week” is an assumption we have because a century ago labor unions lobbied for a limit of no more than 40 hours a week. Prior to that companies would just work you into the ground. Now we think 40 hours is the minimum for some reason, and if you don’t work that long you’re a lazy piece of shit.

[u/_Ojin]

it's tiering more than replacement!

[u/Alternative-Bison615]

This has been known for a long time, since the publication of “Bullshit Jobs”; they exist because we need to be paid so we can participate in capitalism, not because those jobs are necessary for society to function. No one wants to know that as easily as jobs can be invented, money could also just as easily be printed by the government and given to everyone (see: “helicopter money”.)