| ▲ | pesus 3 hours ago |
| Exactly. Not only have the prices gone up, they've gone up for no real reason other than some CEOs are attempting to take over society. The average person isn't even seeing much of the upside of modern technology anymore, just the downsides. Gadgets no longer get cheaper over time, experiences no longer improve over time, and every new startup or innovation seems to be used to make their lives worse, whether directly or indirectly. The average person does not really benefit from recent AI tech - and the minuscule benefits they may possibly sometimes get are easily outweighed by the negative effects. Say what you will about the morality of bread and circuses, but making them increasingly out of reach seems like a very bad idea to me. |
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| ▲ | charcircuit an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| >The average person does not really benefit from recent AI tech ChatGPT and Gemini offer enormous consumer value for free. |
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| ▲ | ericd 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| >The average person does not really benefit from recent AI tech Really? Most people I know seem to have found the chatbots tremendously helpful. It's much faster than researching via a bunch of google searches. |
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| ▲ | mrhottakes 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Most people I know don't use chatbots and don't find them helpful. | | |
| ▲ | kotaKat 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | And can 'most people' even afford most of these services? Having seen some people's spend, even a $200/month plan has me questioning why I'd spend $200/month on Anthropic products when $200/month would be a substantial chunk of my housing as a blue-collar class IT worker just to survive. | | |
| ▲ | ericd an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | You don't need a $200/mo plan, that's for people chewing through Opus tokens with multiple instances of Claude Code going in parallel. My impression is that most people just use the free ChatGPT tier, or $20/mo at most. | |
| ▲ | LtWorf 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I own an apartment, my heating/electricity/water/internet/repairs costs ~400$/month. |
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| ▲ | LtWorf 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | My salary hasn't been increased to pay for this extra helpfullness. | |
| ▲ | Corence an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Google search is worse because of recent AI tech flooding the internet with misinformation and low quality articles. | |
| ▲ | wao0uuno an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | >It's much faster than researching via a bunch of google searches. Ah yes that's certainly worth more than a steady job market, low inflation and affordable goods. Get real. | | |
| ▲ | ericd an hour ago | parent [-] | | I think I'm already real? The main reasons for inflation, outside of computer components, are related to the fact that we're near the end of a long-term debt cycle. Look at demographics and monetary/fiscal policy. This is just the scapegoat du jour for long-term structural issues. Stability in the job market seems to mean stagnation in the long term. That's fine in the short run, but eventually, you're Germany/France and major pillars of your economy are cornered and in trouble. Personally, I think the move is total at-will employment paired with UBI rather than the heavy-handed employer regs that those countries have for stability, and I think that's where we're going to have to go if job losses really start materializing. |
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