Accountants and a range of other “professionals” are also discovering that their status as a middle class above workers is a myth
he past week has thrown into sharp relief the impact that the rapid advance of AI is having – and will potentially have – on all our lives. But it does seem almost ironic that this fact has reached global attention because of the strike by thousands of Hollywood actors.
This raises a fundamental question that has been with us since the advent of modern industrial society: Should developments that affect us all be marshalled for the public good or be left to be exploited by private greed, let alone gain? It is a model that allowed more highly trained, specialist individuals to gravitate to professions – never trades – with greater status and higher pay, and accepted as middle class. The rapid advance of “thinking machines” is now starting to obliterate the distinction between worker and professional – and to remove many workers from the equation.
The ongoing global economic crisis adds to the problem and has seen, for example, the reduction of bars on child labour even in certain of the states in the US. It all adds up to a need for worker unity and for clarity about a democratic way forward.
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