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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

Our Philosophies:

All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

Our Goals

Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

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AI will shrink Amazon's workforce in the coming years, CEO Jassy says (www.cnbc.com)

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Jassy wrote that employees should learn how to use AI tools and experiment and figure out “how to get more done with scrappier teams.”

The directive comes as Amazon has laid off more than 27,000 employees since 2022 and made several cuts this year. Amazon cut about 200 employees in its North America stores unit in January and a further 100 in its devices and services unit in May.

Amazon had 1.56 million full-time and part-time employees in its global workforce as of the end of March, according to financial filings. The company also employs temporary workers in its warehouse operations, along with some contractors.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The nation’s workforce. Forbes predicts a 25% reduction in the US job market by 2035, and Republicans included a provision in the budget reconciliation that prohibits any regulations on AI technology for 10 years to ensure that happens.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

It absolutely wont. The only people who believe this are trying to sell AI, or repeating the ones selling AI.

Nobody has a marketable AI product, nobody is making any money on AI, nobody is effectively using AI as a replacement for workers except in the content-slop industry. Not out of charity, but because LLMs can't do the things that are being constantly promised.

Amazon spend a hundred billion dollars on AI, and made 5 billion on it. That's income, not profit. OpenAI is scraping together more capital because they're going broke from not having a product to sell. Everyone using LLMs for anything right now is paying FAR under operating costs, and would stop immediately if they weren't being funded by VC.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Lmao you have no idea the Ai tools Amazon is using.

It absolutely will replace SDEs

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