> The irony is that AI is best at replacing the work of the upper classes

This is why the harshest critics of AI tend to be white collar workers of this social class. The same kinds that told coal miners and autoworkers to "learn to code" and called them deplorables for voting nativist in 2016.

Any chance to build mutual trust was squandered. The jobs worst impacted by AI are jobs where most of the workers are Democrats and live in blue states that don't swing.

Meanwhile, those manufacturing, construction, and healthcare jobs that are becoming a bigger part of the economy tend to be in the purple part of the country so their needs are heard.

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Eric_WVGG 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

and why the people most prone to praising it are ones who mostly write emails all day.

“Wow, this is very, very good at my job, which must be a difficult job because it pays well and I'm a smart guy. Imagine how well it will work for the dum-dums.”

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techno303 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

gonna push back on this

i don't see a relationship betwern criticism and the chance of automation/replacement

the harshest critics that i see tend to be, almost ubiquitously, creatives

perhaps just my walk of life

	▲	alephnerd 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's a reason the "creatives" are called the "chattering class"

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ModernMech 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> told coal miners and autoworkers to "learn to code" and called them deplorables for voting nativist in 2016.

The actual pitch was to bring educational and alternative energy opportunities to an area that is impoverished and facing harsh economic realities. It's worth pointing out that the people WV did end up electing did not improve the region and did nothing for coal miners' ecnonomic wellbeing, as many of those coal plants shut down anyway and no one of their elected officials did anything to stop it, nor did they provide any economic alternatives to the region:

"coal production has declined 31% since Trump took office [first term], and by some estimates, more than five dozen coal-fired power plants have closed."

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/14/donald-tru...

> called them deplorables for voting nativist in 2016.

She called a spade a spade. As mad as they were in 2016 for being called that, they proved her 100% right when they sacked the capitol in a violent insurrection in 2021 waving KKK and Nazi flags. That's deplorable behavior.