How will it stack up against an actual junior when they start at least trying to break even on the cost? Those megawatts aren't free.

Or just have the leader of the squad that's about to go threaten a kid over a bag of Doritos give the photo a look first. It pays for itself by leaving the squad free to pursue something more relevant and worthwhile. The 30 seconds it would take to look at the picture isn't even enough time to get to their cars.

Sure, but that's beyond dumb. Any moron knows the difference between a hand with a finger extended holding a bag or Doritos and a gun.

As punishment, they should be required to report to the front of the cafeteria and be paddled by the student in front of the entire student body.

The local news can make a day of it.

The job is boring as shit. If you score too high on an intelligence test they won't hire you because you're likely to quit after training.

We don't pay well enough to counter that so there you go. Cops are dumb by design

There are going to be some freaks of nature that can exceed the average.

For example there are people who can sleep 2 to 4 hours a night and be perfectly okay.

Now none of this is sustainable even for those freaks. Eventually they have health problems and have to stop.

But if you're a billionaire you can draw from the entire global population for your workforce and thanks to automation you need less and less workers every year.

That means you can just burn through all of your workers destroying them physically and mentally on your way to becoming a trillionaire.

Assuming the technology they're working on pans out which honestly it looks like it's going to then whoever controls it is more or less a god king or an emperor of mankind. You can basically do away with rank and file workers leaving billions of people without any place in the economy or society.

If you're thinking about that in terms of maintaining a healthy capitalist economy that's a disaster.

But if you're thinking of it like a member of the ruling elite who is disgusted by being dependent on consumers and workers it's a dream come true. It's a return to the good old days of the divine right of kings or the Pharaohs being literal gods. Or more recently Japan's emperors.

AI is not a technology for you or anyone that works for a living.

AI exists to allow wealth to access skill without skill accessing wealth.

It's not for you it's for a handful of billionaires so that they can break the dependency on workers and consumers once and for all.

Customers are a dependency and a check on their power. Elon Musk for example was running roughshod over America and had to back off a little because people stopped buying his cars.

I guarantee you he is furious that us filthy peasants were able to exercise some minor form of control over him and he is going to do everything of his power to break that dependency.

Techno feudalism means capitalism goes away so no more customers and no more consumers. You have a few hundred thousand or maybe even a few million people that exist for the sole purpose of glorifying and pleasing approximately 6 to 8,000 human beings.

You have a handful of engineers that are basically your Craftsman and artisans, a handful of thugs (AKA knights) to keep those engineers in line and you don't need the peasantry anymore because you have machines to do all that.

You then use surveillance and automated weapons to keep the other however many billion in line. This means you periodically do a cull were you just fire a bomb everybody else.

Remember when the blacks started to form their own little black Wall Street and the racists just blew them the kingdom come? Imagine that on a global scale.

The ultra wealthy consider us vermin. I don't mean that like an insult I mean that in a literal sense. And it absolutely disgust them to be dependent on us vermin.

I think the reason people have a hard time with this is we are taught that capitalism is eternal and that the only threat to it is socialism or communism.

In theory, that's an argument for adding a "bathroom break" button to groupware more than for RTO. Managers would get metrics to find employees who misuse the break button in excess of what labor law encourages employers to allow.

Ultimately, that depends on the nature of the position. Do you work call center or something else?

I'm in development, not operations, so my manager tends to be more accepting of my habit of dropping offline for an hour at a time to avoid the 23-minute interruption penalty associated with complex problem-solving.

That is all you have? How pathetic. Well, what can you expect from a serial liar.

Yep. Dark times.

This is not capitalism. Capitalism want to exploit workers the most efficient way. It has been well-established (by Henry Ford and others) that absolute peak performance (per week) for mental workers is around 36h/week with 6h per day. You can add about 2h/day of simple administrative work, but that is it. Have them work more, lose money even if the additional time is unpaid.

What this is is a "slave holder" mind-set where everybody must be miserable and have nothing outside of work so the slaves are to tired and worn-out to even think about rebellion.

It has been well established for something like 100 years now that peek performance per week for mental workers is at around 36h/week, 6h per day. You can increase that to around 40h without losing too much. But go to 12h/6 days and performance will drop massively below peak (in absolute performance per week), due to mistakes, wiped out creativity and insight, sickness, burn-out, competent people leaving, etc.

The only thing this approach accomplishes is toxic virtue-signaling. Everybody sane should stay far away from such a place that celebrates abject stupidity.

Trying to force 996 on all of us. Pay attention they are gradually introducing the idea into your head so they can force you to do it, or your kids if you're retired.

This is how you wag the Dog. You will see more and more of these stories normalizing the death of the 40-hour work week that your great-grandparents fought and died for. I don't mean in world war II

Meanwhile we are automating fucking everything and have been for 45 years. So the last thing you should do is have people work longer hours for less pay.

I keep saying this but the billionaires have had enough of capitalism. They have noticed that they are wealth and privileged and power derives from consumers and they don't like you. They're taking measures to put an end to capitalism but leave them in charge.

Go read up on the history of capitalism. Capitalism is a relatively new invention of humans. It's not something eternal like you were taught to believe in high school. There is absolutely no reason it can't be destroyed with something dystopian and completely unlike the socialist ideas floating around. Something like feudalism but so much worse because it's backed by surveillance and technology

You are incapable of spotting trends.

This is another case of the ruling elite intentionally making your life worse for minor and Petty benefits for themselves.

In this case everyone who has to go into work for real reasons has more traffic and everyone who doesn't has to spend their mortal lifetime trapped in a little fucking box for anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours a day all because the super rich want to maintain property levels for commercial real estate and fire some people without paying compensation.

This is a case of your life getting noticeably worse because somebody's super wealthy wants it to even though you do not.

And the only thing that makes that possible is people like you trading pathetic moral panics and bigotry and tribalism for real tangible economic goods and services.

The fact that you cannot recognize how they control you or understand that return to work is just another example of them controlling you and making your life objectively worse and that you cannot connect those dots is why we are all fucked.

You simply do not have the critical thinking skills and pattern recognition to exist and thrive in a modern civilization and eventually they're going to put you on the chopping block and slaughter you like a pig. All of us.

If you're over 65 maybe you get to die before then and well then I guess you win. You get to be the garbage human being you've always wanted to be your whole life and you got away with it. You got the look down on whichever group you prefer to look down on that you need to look down on and you got to indulge in moral panics and the pleasures that come with that.

On the other hand if you're in your 50s holy fucking shit are you fucked. You're about to learn what it means to have a ruling class and not be part of the in group

You're completely incapable of understanding context.

This is another example of things in your life and mine getting worse because people at the top want them to be worse even though everyone else doesn't.

The fact that you cannot draw that line, that very obvious line from point a to point b, is why we are all completely fucked.

You're inability to recognize wider patterns and react intelligently to them and the sheer number of people out there just like you who do not have those critical thinking facilities is going to Doom our country and probably even our species.

But hey you sure showed me didn't you? Consider me owned. Surprised you didn't mention TDS