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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦onMastodon1d ago
RE: https://assortedflotsam.com/@smeg/116488609327705013
❝ AI is more expensive than paying human workers ❞
“human workers”
not experts. not the people with special knolwledge and unique expertise whose labor give their products and services that je ne sais quoi capitalists get to pocket as profits.
NOPE.
❝ human workers ❞
capitalists have NO IDEA how their wealth is made. they only know money and to them, workers are the middlemen between them & profits.
that’s why they want to believe AI is finally ridding them of workers.
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Analysis Summary
A Mastodon user pushes back on a quoted line that called labor 'human workers,' arguing the phrase erases skilled expertise and reflects how executives misunderstand where profits actually come from. The underlying economic point — that AI often can't replace specialized knowledge work as cheaply as advertised — has real backing, with recent studies and high-profile rollbacks (like Klarna rehiring humans after its AI customer service push) showing AI substitution is harder than hyped. The post is opinion/commentary, not a factual report, so it's scored on the strength of its argument rather than verifiable claims. What the post doesn't mention: Meta just laid off over 1,000 Kenya-based content moderators, with the company and its subcontractor publicly disagreeing on whether AI automation was the cause.
Claims Analysis (3)
“AI is more expensive than paying human workers”
Quoted from a referenced post. Studies show mixed results — AI can be cheaper for some tasks, more expensive for others requiring expertise.
“Capitalists do not understand how their wealth is made and view workers as middlemen between them and profits”
Marxist labor-theory critique framed as opinion, not a verifiable factual claim.
“Capitalists want to believe AI is finally ridding them of workers”
Characterization of executive motivation — opinion-based, though aligned with documented AI-driven layoff trends.
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