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    Start forcing users to use AI
    lose staff
    Fire staff so that AI can take over
    lose staff
    Find out AI can’t replace the users, get devalued
    lose staff

    seems pretty toxic

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          Morally I feel I made the right decision, financially probably not but I’ll choose morals over cash any day.

          Won’t know if I’ll stay in IT yet for a few months at this new job, or if I need to pivot harder

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    Imagine failing this hard at your job and keeping it.

    And I know his job is to keep the stock price high… but 28 percent growth over the last five years in tech is still failing at your job.

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      “Double digit YoY or get out. Doesn’t matter how many people you have to fire or how hard to exploit the ones you keep. Double digit or GTFO.” -Shareholders

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      Besides the usual CEO shenanigans, they really want AI to succeed, to replace usually leftist intellectuals with a far-right AI.

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        I want cold fusion, cancer to be cured for 1 dollar, and flying ponies. But I know I’m not getting those.

        They aren’t going to get true AI either.

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    Why does Larry Ellison give me such crazy uncanny valley vibes?! Is his head too long? Moustache too narrow? Generally too smooth? It has fucked me up all day scrolling past this image.

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    No matter how much I try, all I see in this picture is Mel Brooks as President Skroob sniffing Air out of a can.

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      So now they HAVE to double down and fund this AI infrastructure, because sunk costs dictate that they can’t admit to a bad decision and hire back the terminated employees.

      Just because it’s costly doesn’t mean they aren’t going to push forward with all their might, unfortunately

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        Anyone with sense still locked in to Oracle products needs to find their nearest exit strategy.

        I know it won’t be easy, but the alternative is going to be a lot messier when they completely go to shit and you lose everything.

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    Fucking wild to read the article. Oracle got pissy because regulations said you can’t just shove datacenter electricity costs on people.

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      People shouldn’t be working for super villains.

      People stand around wondering why the fuck these companies are able to do what they do and these billionaires the same. WELL BECAUSE YOU WORK FOR THEM CHAD. IT’S LITERALLY YOUR FAULT!

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        In a shitty job market, a job for the supervillain is better than starving and being homeless.

        This rhetoric comes from a place of privilege.

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          Lmao, they are quite literally saying it is the suffering peoples fault. Evil supervillains literally find and abuse any leverage they can get to make people work for them, depriving them of any other option. That’s why they’re supervillains to begin with.

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          It’s not shitty enough to completely leave your ethics at the door. You might need to take a little less pay, or work on something less interesting (although we’re talking about Oracle here).

          Somebody who landed a job at Oracle had options. That is until today. Now they have 21,000 other people to compete with.

          It’s the people somewhere like Nvidia I have some empathy for. They thought they were building gaming tech and they’ve ended up building the apocalypse.

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    Buying Time Warner seems poisoned for digital companies, or their owners.

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    I really want one or more of these AI companies to fail hard. I think their only strategy is literally to burn through billions hoping it’ll be another company that goes to the wall first and they’ll somehow reap the rewards by hanging on longer.

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      They’ve made it so they will all fail together. They’re bound. This way they can ensure a bailout, because if they don’t get a bailout, they will have a significant effect on the us economy on their way down.