> Tech people so obviously loath creatives, its so sad.
This isn’t what I’m saying at all. His job changed. You know who else has their job change sometimes? Everybody. I remember going to work one day and being told that I was going to be using Angular from now on. On that day all satisfaction, creativity, and joy was sapped out of my job. But I didn’t go and cry about it on Reddit.
> Zero meaning left except for the psychopaths at the top, they're the only ones allowed to derive meaning from their work.
Luddites say this about every single technological innovation that they whinge about.
Perhaps you should have. I think people deserve to feel loss. Alienation is a real issue. Automation breeds Alienation. I much rather feel meaning at work than have a cheaper TV or yet another data mining website that requires yet another account for little benefit.
> Luddites say this about every single technological innovation that they whinge about.
Possibly because it should be concerning that any meaning found in work is being optimized away for someone else's benefit. The weird lack of empathy to admit it happened to you and to decide someone else should feel it to, sorta worries me.
Especially in a creative field. Who does the cookie cutter AI models benefit? It doesn't benefit the consumer who wasted money on a lazy product, it doesn't benefit the people working on the project, as now their working hours are cut due to the soulless optimization. It benefits the boss, the guy extracting this value and selling a lesser product.
Ah, the alienation of labor, I wonder where I’ve heard about that silly idea before…
Having a job isn’t about finding the ultimate fulfilment in life. It’s about two parties exchanging value, that’s it. If you’d prefer to go back to a time before technological innovation made the necessities of life so cheap to produce that they’re accessible to basically everybody, then I’m sure you could find a country that hasn’t yet gone through that stage of development to live in. I’m almost certain that you don’t actually want that though…
> Ah you can afford TVs and corn based foods. Why don't you go back in time so you don't have to do pointless activities for most of your waking hours until you retire and die 10 years later
This isn’t what I’m saying at all. His job changed. You know who else has their job change sometimes? Everybody. I remember going to work one day and being told that I was going to be using Angular from now on. On that day all satisfaction, creativity, and joy was sapped out of my job. But I didn’t go and cry about it on Reddit.
> Zero meaning left except for the psychopaths at the top, they're the only ones allowed to derive meaning from their work.
Luddites say this about every single technological innovation that they whinge about.