Dev argues AI job elimination should be the goal — but incentives are broken
tobowers · x · 2026-10-06
tobowers argues that "job elimination" is a poorly framed way of describing "automating drudgery out of humanity's necessary tasks" and should be a goal — but the current system punishes displaced workers while rewarding those who eliminated their jobs. A reply counters that AI will eventually reach every job, not just programmers'.
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