• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    All of STEM is suffering because of corporate greed and rising anti-intellectualism.

    How do I say that even … it’s normal. When you are talking about infinite growth being unsustainable, that means that at some point the industry should implode.

    They have sort of an oligopoly and stagnation now, which is why all these layoffs happen - the “AI” solves some problems cheaper than people, even accounting for the worse results.

    But if we imagine the industry suddenly destroying that oligopoly and becoming interesting again, it still would require less people.

    • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today
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      4 hours ago

      I’m not saying there wouldn’t be layoffs without it, but it certainly would be better. I know from experience that a lot of the people that were laid off were a critical part of the team, and those that remained had to bare that load. It has burned me out several times, because I’m doing work that should be done by two or three people.