• FallenWalnut@lemmy.worldOP
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    The layoffs could be as high as 20% of the company!

    We can’t keep rewarding Big Tech for choosing AI over people.

    We need to make the switch to support smaller & better businesses - reminder about purchasewithpurpose.io to help you get started.

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        EU is going down the same path. The “EU alternative” stuff is just bogus. It’s just a matter of time before EU starts doing the same.

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          Us tech is on a completely different level evil wise. Maybe it gets worse but in the moment EU tech is much less evil. Just listen to what the openai ceo says in interviews.

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          EU is going down the same path. The “EU alternative” stuff is just bogus. It’s just a matter of time before EU starts doing the same.

          It’s not bogus if you are yourself European or if the alternative is Big Tech. But I feel you. There are lots of shitty European companies that are not that much better. I avoided the switch to Spotify because even though they are “European” they gave a lot of money to Joe Rogan and to Trump on his inauguration.

          Also, the EU did recently reject the chat control proposal so at least that’s something…

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      I want to do that if there is a deal in which part of what I spend is reinvested in hiring workers at humane rates.

      Or, even better, in sharing ownership with the workers.

      The “bodega romanticism” is something I see as a huge societal issue, also because I can imagine a lot of “bodegas” actually dreaming to achieve the same kind of success of Big Tech.

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      I don’t think AI is to blame. They just don’t need those people. I heard big tech hired a lot of people to steal them from smaller businesses, so they could not compete with them. If those employees had been useful to them, they wouldn’t fire them.