A.I. in Vegas

 My aunt from America sents me this link to news in Las Vegas

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/04/1197138244/vegas-ai-workers-brace-for-change

Apparently a few robots have appeared in bars, serving customers. So of course, workers are scared their jobs are going to be taken away. It is a touching picture to see, these men and women holding bilingual protest signs, in both Spanish and English, wanting to have their rights protected.

                                    "Vegas - Fremont St (6)" by The Steampunk Explorer is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Is management that thick to think that robots will do the job perfectly well? That they are saving on people who become pregnant, who become sick, who then need to retire? That is really blind management. Every nincompoop, north and south and east and west thinks this is it, I'm investing right now but saving money as humans cost money, as humans are humans. Can't they see however, that this is the future? That companies that are made of humans will be the asset of the future? Powered by humans, not by machine? That is the haute-couture of every business.

And that the pseudo-philosophers of Silicon Valley, destroyers of worlds, think that there will be no need to work anymore, that you will spend your life doing meaningfull things...yeah right. Machines have been with us a while now, are we working less? No, and for some, we are working more. And if we look into the past (oh I so wish each of these companies in Silicon Valley would hire historians, or at least read books from historians!) we are not saving time. A recent article in the Guardian shows that we spend the same amount of time cleaning our homes now, than we did before. So yes, we have machines to help us clean the home, machines that clean our clothes and our plates, but the amount of time remains the same. Which is not a bad thing in a way (apart from some on spraying anti-germs products everywhere... not a great idea for your kids as they will become fragile... a bit of microb is good for you!)... but to think like some in Silicon Valley that working will be a thing of the past... oh please.... and working is good for you (says the middle-class one who has a job well paid and still has time to study and write on the side), but I mean by this that it is good we are keeping busy, and unfortunately, it is necessary that we earn some money if we are not born into it. 

So well done Culinary Union of Nevada, continue fighting. People are worth it! And frankly, do you see yourself, as a drunk guy who's just been dumped by his love interest, speaking to a robot late at night in a bar? There is SO MUCH MORE HUMANS CAN DO!