US senator appears at Manhattan rally alongside New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, who cautioned that AI is ‘coming for human jobs’
Bernie Sanders has sounded an alarm over the US economy, warning “the worst is yet to come” unless workers overcome a “ruling class” of billionaires.
The US senator spoke at a rally in Manhattan on Sunday alongside Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, who cautioned that artificial intelligence was “coming for human jobs” amid mounting concern over the technology’s rapid development.
As the pair headlined the launch of Union Now, a new drive to boost labor unions across the US, Sanders issued a bleak assessment of the consequences if workers fail to organize against billionaires like Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX; Jeff Bezos, executive chair of Amazon; and Donald Trump, the US president.
I don’t believe such a thing is sustainable. Look to Iran, a similar dynamic where Israel would have liked to prevent Iranian independence. Independence to build strength, presence, sovereignty, … Israel had this idea that they would need to “mow the lawn” — which translates to bombing the shit out of them every once in a while.
This is like antibiotics. You kill the many of the entities, sure, but short of committing genocide, you’re left with a smaller population of more capable individuals. Those individuals will come back stronger and will demand harder, as we can see now with the emboldened Iran we’ve been left with.
It’s not a pretty path forward. But, I’m doubtful it will work out for them in the long run.
It is not sustainable and these policies will likely hurt the wealthy in the long run with decreased profits. They don’t care about the long term though.
They are basically trying to take as much as they can and do enough damage that we can’t undo what they pushed through easily.
Unfortunately they have been winning not just in the US but every developed country as seen in the ever growing wealth gaps.
The answer is small incremental changes/policies that will slowly eliminate the wealth gap without causing too much disruption.