The ‘Other’ Great Replacement Taking Place
The cat’s out of the bag at Amazon, but how many other major employers have similar plans? What happens when millions of people are replaced by robots and AI? Why isn’t anyone talking about this?
A new report came out this week showing that Amazon is ramping up automation and drastically reducing its reliance on humans, potentially eliminating more than 160,000 human jobs by 2027.
That’s less than two years away. But if you extrapolate the figures to 2033, they’re actually much worse: Amazon will then cut 600,000 jobs that would otherwise need to be filled. This is evident from internal documents cited by the New York Times, writes Leo Hohmann .
Using AI robots to replace human labor is part of a strategy aimed at doubling the company’s revenue while significantly reducing labor costs. In short, AI robots are the key to improving Amazon’s bottom line like never before.
The company aims to automate 75% of its operations and reposition its robotics efforts as “advanced technology” and “cobots.” Sounds good, right?
If only Amazon were doing this, it would be alarming. Amazon is the third-largest employer in the country, after the federal government and Walmart.
But what if all or most large employers in America were working on similar strategies with similar timelines? What if, in the age of AI and robots, they all plan to maximize this technology over the next three to seven years? We’re talking about a job-destroying behemoth with enormous consequences for American society. Not just for America, but for the entire world. What will happen to tens of millions of workers being replaced by machines and AI algorithms?
It’s a dilemma few of our elected leaders want to discuss. They prefer to praise the wonders of AI and deny its dark side. But lying about the true motives behind companies’ adoption of AI and avoiding discussion won’t solve the problem, will it?
Where can all the displaced and displaced workers go to make a living? Not everyone can become a carpenter, plumber, or electrician—the kinds of skilled professions that still seem relatively safe from the massive AI replacement strategy. Not everyone can start their own business, because that also requires unique talents.
That’s why Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and many other tech bros talk so much about Universal Basic Income, or UBI, where people belonging to a new useless class are paid to sit at home and do nothing.
Israeli historian and futurist Yuval Harari writes:
“Perhaps the most important question in 21st-century economics is: What should we do with all the superfluous humans, once we have highly intelligent, non-conscious algorithms that can do almost everything better than humans?”
Harari adds: “Most of what kids are learning in school right now will probably be irrelevant by the time they’re 40.” And he said that in 2017. Since then, technology has accelerated significantly.
Harari suggests that the best-case scenario we can hope for these displaced and “useless” workers might be that they entertain themselves with video games and are comfortably numbed with a kind of modern-day Soma. He admits that for the human psyche, the only thing worse than feeling oppressed is feeling utterly useless and redundant.
So we’re facing a moral dilemma created by AI and advanced robotics, a dilemma politicians refuse to discuss. All we hear from them is how great AI is and how we must fully master and utilize it, or we’ll fall behind in the race to replace it. If we don’t, the Chinese will, they say, hoping to end the conversation by simply calling out the Chinese bogeyman.
That’s not enough when millions of Americans are losing their jobs and taking to the streets because they can’t feed their families and have no hope for the future.
Perhaps that explains why the globalists and technocrats are so eager to provide everyone with a biometric digital ID, so they can ramp up their surveillance in a pre-crime scenario that helps them keep everyone in line.
Or perhaps the globalist power elites intend to address the dilemma of AI-driven job destruction in society through their long-held and sophisticated depopulation plans. That would certainly explain why these same power elites are so eager to start a Third World War with Russia.
Meanwhile, the corporate media will distract us from what’s really happening for as long as possible. There will be bread and circuses galore. With a healthy dose of political drama, mixed with the Entertainer in Chief. Hey, did you see his latest AI video where he throws poop on his political opponents from an F-16 fighter jet? That was so cool, wasn’t it? LOL.
It is time to prepare ourselves mentally, physically and spiritually for major changes in our society that are happening at a rapid pace.
The Great Replacement, powered by an AI-powered digital marking system, is being built before our very eyes. Those who hand over the keys will describe it as safe and secure, more convenient and inclusive, a true digital wonderland designed to make your life easier and happier. But once inside, you’ll find it more like a prison. Will you enter voluntarily? Will you be bribed or incentivized to participate? Will you be pressured? Forced? All these options are on the table.