>>15255
>A cheap mass-produced chair still works as a chair and lasts a few years.
Consider how the requirements have changed, though. At one point in time, you might have expected your chair to be durable, or at least repairable. In the industrial age, requirements change to fit the modes of production, distribution, and consumption which enhance the power of the ruling class. Propaganda shoves it down our throats until we're used to it. Chairs are perhaps a less extreme example, but do you remember when you'd be considered crazy to prefer not having cash on you ever? Now a lot of people consider you crazy for having cash on you ever.
The same thing is going to happen with work in the age of LLM's. Already, a lot of companies and even universities are making LLM usage part of their requirements.
The goal is to devalue knowledge and skill itself. They want to destroy the power of their specialized, skilled knowledge workers just as they did to their specialized, skilled industrial workers. Even the most automated factory still has people that essentially babysit the machines, doing the many tasks that require human oversight; that doesn't bother the corpos. What makes the idea attractive is that the person babysitting the machine replaceable and disposable, in a way that (for instance) a programmer is not.
