How A.I is taking out the human labour centric culture.

[Hamza2424]

The economy has always followed an intricate pattern; firstly labour creating value, value then creates then creates income, and then income funds consumption.

With the emergence of AI, that circle is becoming a thing of the past.

One can't help but ask the curious question: if machines produce more value, but humans own few productive assets, who maintains consumer demands?

The future if Capitalism would e such that, production capacity increases, but mass purchasing power weakens. Surely a defining crisis the AI era has created.

I think you have not heard that AI is getting expensive with time, and the tokens or credits they are buying are becoming more expensive than their workers. We already know how small companies have outsourced workers remotely and saved a lot of money, which became their profit, and with AI they can easily change their workforce and lay people off whenever they want.

But AI is becoming more expensive than employees, and that is why when Nvidia advertised their model, they said it was going to be the cheapest of all time. Even the machines used to run these LLMs are not cheap, so companies might depend on AI or AI agents, but they still need developers, the ones who understand AI better. So we will see labour shifting from one job to another. People are not going to give up that easily, they still have to make a living, although they might stop spending much and only spend on necessary things.

[uneng]

Through AI, the tendency is that humans have access to more autonomy than they have today. This autonomy can decrease expenses too. Imagine having your own robot making the dinner, producing food, cleaning the house and doing all the hard work, while you have spare time to spend on another matters you would like to do. I guess we are talking about a new concept of society, where the roles of the individuals will have to be re-imagined and re-adapted to the context which is to come.

Everything is still unclear, because we are entering this new age just now. But as technology evolves, it becomes faster each new year, so I don't think it will take so long until we reach there.

[Nanga Parbat]

AI cannot replace all professions, some jobs are disappearing but new jobs are also emerging. Even if AI replaces all jobs, it is still too late, it is difficult to say where the world will go in the long run. Wars have already set some countries back by a few years to a few hundred years. Even the global political situation is not good, if the world faces a major war, then maybe all the technology will be destroyed and people will have to survive by laboring themselves. So there is no reason to worry too much about AI right now.

I have the same opinion, AI is not here to eliminate the jobs but it introduce or turns the old jobs into new forms . At the time of invention of AI it was misconception that it would have comes to replacing the labor. But I have experienced that AI has changed the shapes of work like in traditionally means of earning was limited but its AI who created jobs even across the boarder. People can work remotely for the different companies in more efficient way. Same in education department AI not only assist the students but also helpful for the teachers. Parents can also monitor their kids performance through it. On business side it is helpful in increasing marketing or customer services. Even in all departments it enhance the efficiency , there is need of adaptability to cope with modern world.

[el kaka22]

The owners of AI? I mean this is not really that complicated, if a boss can hire AI to do the job of a human, then they will, and the reality is that it should be cheaper. Right now, it is so expensive to buy those tokens, to use AI, that there are companies who literally reverted back to hiring Junior devs, so that the base code could be cheaper. Yes, you heard it right, AI is so expensive that JR coders are cheaper at this moment to hire.

This is why there are still some time left until we are taken over. But when that does happen, Bosses would just get AI and fire people and Boss would make more money. They do not care "if everyone in the world is fired, and only AI works, then how could people afford to buy my product?", they simply just want more money, they do not think about the consequences.

[snowpega]

We are still far away from AI replacing humans. But in future, it is possible that people wont need to work 8 hours a day. Maybe people can work for much less hours, and even a universal basic income will become a reality.

There is a serie  of books written in the 80s about it, Culture series. It is a society where nobody is needed to work anymore because robots do everything better than humans

Actually, not that far away. AI integration in some companies has already started, where it is like a nightmare for some. This is not a good thing in my point of view because the use of AI in companies should be integrated in such a way that employees can do or perform their tasks in an easy way, not in a way where AI starts getting replaced with human employees. Some days ago, I was reading a news report that China banned AI from being replaced with a real human in companies. And I really appreciate this act of the government. Here you can also read that and tell me what you think about it.

A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate employees just to replace them with artificial intelligence systems, as authorities juggle the need to stabilize the domestic labor market with a global race to develop AI technologies.

https://fortune.com/2026/05/03/chinese-court-layoffs-workers-ai-replacement-labor-market/

And I really feel that this should be implemented internationally to keep maintaining the employment rate at a healthy level.

[Davidvictorson]

The economy has always followed an intricate pattern; firstly labour creating value, value then creates then creates income, and then income funds consumption.

With the emergence of AI, that circle is becoming a thing of the past.

One can't help but ask the curious question: if machines produce more value, but humans own few productive assets, who maintains consumer demands?

The future if Capitalism would e such that, production capacity increases, but mass purchasing power weakens. Surely a defining crisis the AI era has created.

It is true that AI will make some jobs obsolete but another truth that exists is that AI is going to create new jobs and new skill set. The machines will still need people but just people with a different type of technical know how. I do not in anyway believe that it will replace humans in anyway rather humans will learn to co-exist with AI just as a collaborator.

[tabas]

We'll get to see that and that's why some are already alarming their respective people like China does that this AI emergence is going to cause a lot of problem for the basic consumerism when jobs of people replaced by AI. I've seen a video where a factory of garments have been training an AI to do their jobs and they even clapped when it has managed to do its task for thousands of times. I don't think it's necessary to do that clap although for an achievement it should be but little did these workers know, it's the one that will do their jobs and will overtake them soon. 

[STT]

People are overreacting to AI really, most tasks Ive seen AI do were possible ten years ago.  All its doing now is making it more convenient and accessible to even the noobs who cant program etc.
    So now the AI can rule the roost but the actual utility and command processing its doing is very often not new, the new part is the power its handing to completely layman parts of the population which wides the product reach and allows mass production, scales of economy to kick in.

So AI can scan a million xrays and highlight possible cancer, a person could and has been doing that for a very long time.  The difference in introducing AI is to automate the task, we are already familiar with factory production automation and amplifying tasks to increase work flow; I cant see why people expect AI to be that different.

  AI is new but its also just the same technological process of refinement we witnessed before multiple times across generations in many ways.

[ingiltere]

I don't think this is that important. There have been major disruptions like this throughout history, but humanity has always adapted. If AI takes people's jobs, people will find other work to do. Furthermore, governments are aware of this situation and are already working on systems for unconditional basic income, such as a universal basic income. In the future people will work less and some industries will disappear. That's the good side of technology.

We're currently going through a transformation. It's hard to notice while we're in the midst of it, but once everything falls into place, you'll see just how quickly people adapt. There's no need to take it the wrong way.

[Ashawowo(OS)]

We are still far away from AI replacing humans. But in future, it is possible that people wont need to work 8 hours a day. Maybe people can work for much less hours, and even a universal basic income will become a reality.

There is a serie  of books written in the 80s about it, Culture series. It is a society where nobody is needed to work anymore because robots do everything better than humans

Robots can be effective but robots cannot work independently for longer, robots need human beings to manage it properly and continue validating its efficiency. I have never believed that a day would come when nobody is needed to work, however, the ordinary unskilled person with AI would loose his job and only people who moved with the trend and can work with these robots would always remain employable.

[dezoel]

I don't think this is that important. There have been major disruptions like this throughout history, but humanity has always adapted. If AI takes people's jobs, people will find other work to do. Furthermore, governments are aware of this situation and are already working on systems for unconditional basic income, such as a universal basic income. In the future people will work less and some industries will disappear. That's the good side of technology.

We're currently going through a transformation. It's hard to notice while we're in the midst of it, but once everything falls into place, you'll see just how quickly people adapt. There's no need to take it the wrong way.

Exactly, we have seen this happen way too often and we should not be shocked about anything further later on. I think it is clear that we are going to see this be very easy to handle if we know what we are dealing with, and we shouldn't really be shocked about it either.

I understand it is not too tough, but it should not be that much of a big deal neither, we should be dealing with something that is handling it very well and not that badly. I hope that people could do fine about it later on.