<story><title>How Tech Loses Out</title><url>https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Fordec</author><text>At the core of it, the very core of it, tech is waged work. Just like in manufacturing, which was outsourced quite prolifically. Tech isn&amp;#x27;t special in this regard.&lt;p&gt;The thing that hasn&amp;#x27;t come about yet though is, sales, marketing, accounting can also be outsourced. Dare I say automated. It is at the end of the day, still waged work. Marketing is not an asset class. Accounting isn&amp;#x27;t capital ownership. Fabrication is a tool, tech is a tool, social media is a tool.&lt;p&gt;The moment that this sort of stuff gets automated there will be a reckoning on how businesses are built in western society. I don&amp;#x27;t mean a saleforce competitor with a slicker UI, I mean completely abstracting away payroll and the like.&lt;p&gt;Imagine for a moment:&lt;p&gt;You could say to anyone, &amp;quot;I like the work you do want to work for me?&amp;quot; either in person, online, even here. They say yes. Now suddenly a pipeline process kicks off, like a CICD for recruitment. You have your budget metrics all in place, the receiver has their negotiation asks, etc. And AI hashes out a negotiation, in browser or on your phones etc. comes up with a negotiation contract, highlights the important bits or deal breakers that need a higher level sign off. &amp;quot;Click &amp;#x27;Yes&amp;#x27; to work.&amp;quot; Done. Hired. Here&amp;#x27;s your onboarding package and account credentials, your paycheck comes in at the end of the month.&lt;p&gt;All the while, the two people at the table or on twitter have just been continuing on with their lives. Nobody talked to HR. Nobody had to manually do filings with the IRS. The business owner never opened a dashboard or logged in to their negotiation.ai account. It is not this easy at the moment. But no rule of physics says it can&amp;#x27;t be in the future.&lt;p&gt;Entire classes of work could crumble while people could create in a much more competitive manner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdgoesmarching</author><text>It’s kind of terrifying how few people in this industry take this seriously and dismiss unionizing and organization efforts. Every publicly owned company is incentivized to squeeze every possible penny out of their income statement and we know from history that corporations will fight hard to eliminate high wage labor whenever possible.&lt;p&gt;Our salaries and power won’t last forever, and if we don’t turn around our culture of worshipping techno-aristocrats quickly then we’re all going to have a rough time in the next few decades.</text></comment>
<story><title>How Tech Loses Out</title><url>https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Fordec</author><text>At the core of it, the very core of it, tech is waged work. Just like in manufacturing, which was outsourced quite prolifically. Tech isn&amp;#x27;t special in this regard.&lt;p&gt;The thing that hasn&amp;#x27;t come about yet though is, sales, marketing, accounting can also be outsourced. Dare I say automated. It is at the end of the day, still waged work. Marketing is not an asset class. Accounting isn&amp;#x27;t capital ownership. Fabrication is a tool, tech is a tool, social media is a tool.&lt;p&gt;The moment that this sort of stuff gets automated there will be a reckoning on how businesses are built in western society. I don&amp;#x27;t mean a saleforce competitor with a slicker UI, I mean completely abstracting away payroll and the like.&lt;p&gt;Imagine for a moment:&lt;p&gt;You could say to anyone, &amp;quot;I like the work you do want to work for me?&amp;quot; either in person, online, even here. They say yes. Now suddenly a pipeline process kicks off, like a CICD for recruitment. You have your budget metrics all in place, the receiver has their negotiation asks, etc. And AI hashes out a negotiation, in browser or on your phones etc. comes up with a negotiation contract, highlights the important bits or deal breakers that need a higher level sign off. &amp;quot;Click &amp;#x27;Yes&amp;#x27; to work.&amp;quot; Done. Hired. Here&amp;#x27;s your onboarding package and account credentials, your paycheck comes in at the end of the month.&lt;p&gt;All the while, the two people at the table or on twitter have just been continuing on with their lives. Nobody talked to HR. Nobody had to manually do filings with the IRS. The business owner never opened a dashboard or logged in to their negotiation.ai account. It is not this easy at the moment. But no rule of physics says it can&amp;#x27;t be in the future.&lt;p&gt;Entire classes of work could crumble while people could create in a much more competitive manner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>novok</author><text>So you mean, how work was done before the modern nation state, income tax, passports, visas and mass literacy?   All of the work you describe was created by human bureaucracies for human bureaucracies.  Beforehand you didn&amp;#x27;t need the paperwork.</text></comment>