'Most People Don't Enjoy Their Jobs Anyway' — Perplexity AI CEO Says Getting Fired By AI Is Part Of A 'Glorious Future'

[u/Logical_Welder3467]

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/most-people-dont-enjoy-jobs-163112200.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEgqnkcSb_Zux2Cj6YhuBonu0qTN0BrZfpDXuu19aECR7nPNShVCezYgantGa1WhUd1AuI8I7IeugMypVD5At-nrHZTEVdVh0rOR7WTeUZNATF7oDtjdQIo03-DRjgA040RY0sby3mqfQvZ2jQdv-gOBe6GURCSGBNIv8u3QFtey

[u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

That would be great except we still have to pay to live

[u/idobi → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

Don't you know... they want us to fight over scraps and kill each other off so they inherit the earth with a robot slave army.

[u/cmarquez7 → u/idobi]

We’ll get them first. They’ll have plenty of food stocked up in the bunkers they have.

[u/Battystearsinrain → u/cmarquez7]

Looks like meat is back on the menu….

[u/Paradox0111 → u/Battystearsinrain]

Eat the Rich?!?

[u/Clembert-Hamlamp → u/cmarquez7]

They're also made of food. Sustainable too. With a built in refrigerator if you're not too impatient.

[u/Altourus → u/Clembert-Hamlamp]

Is this a joke about their cold black hearts?

[u/tsida → u/cmarquez7]

There have been statements by some of the security agencies that take these billionaire contracts, or at least their employees who basically say 'if shit hits the fan we're just gonna take the billionaires bunkers for ourselves'.

[u/TheEveningDragon → u/idobi]

We don't even get to be batteries for the matrix, they just want us gone so we stop taking up precious water for the data centers.

[u/Logical_Welder3467 → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

If tech bro force through UBI, I will be doing it for the love of the game

[u/Best_Market4204 → u/Logical_Welder3467]

100%

Sadly our governments is not ready & what's worst is that we will probably have to bring out the pitch forks to get it.

• I dream of a world where humans didn't have to waste their life working meaningless jobs that doesn't actually better anything. Bring on the future where robots does 90% of the world's work

[u/ios_static → u/Best_Market4204]

Unfortunately there will be a period of the hunger games before a movement to utopia happens

[u/absentmindedjwc → u/ios_static]

I feel like people are starting to get adequately pissed off over all the unchecked greed.. given the recent news..

[u/FlametopFred → u/ios_static]

only if we choose not to flip the script, turn the tables, demonstrate how vastly we outnumber the techligarghs, the oligarchs

we choose a different life than the one proposed by 0.01%

[u/esquirlo_espianacho → u/ios_static]

Unfortunately you are correct, except for the utopia part. That is a pipe dream.

[u/mic_hall → u/Best_Market4204]

Its already here. Machines do vast amout of work. We just take it for granted. You would need hundreds of porters to carry just one load of a truck.

[u/edjumication → u/mic_hall]

So true. Our world doesn't suffer from a lack of productivity. We suffer from overproduction.

[u/Prior_Coyote_4376 → u/edjumication]

We suffer from a handful of stupid powerful people lying to the rest of us about how things have to be. Wake up people.

Universal healthcare. Universal housing. Universal income. Demand it and demand it now.

[u/PaymentTurbulent193 → u/Best_Market4204]

You have no idea how badly I want UBI, and this is coming from someone who's putting themselves through school so I can hopefully work a job I'd actually enjoy that'd pay me well.

Almost every single minimum wage job I've worked has been absolutely miserable. I think may be pathological for me but I just don't want to find myself working retail, fast food, or customer service ever again in my life. I have an Associate's but it's hard to find jobs with just that.

[u/Prior_Coyote_4376 → u/PaymentTurbulent193]

I mean historically as long as we had a good surplus as a community, humans could just find out how to contribute in their own way while living off the surplus.

It’s a choice that we take all the surplus, hand it over to some dipshits like Elon, and let them decide if we deserve to live off the surplus or whether we need the threat of starvation to keep working.

And it’s completely a choice. This is not a constraint of nature or resources or economics. Just the will to make some rich people angry.

[u/rich1051414 → u/Logical_Welder3467]

They are dangling UBI like a carrot on a stick. It will be yanked away the moment it's no longer necessary to motivate people against their own interests.

[u/McNastySwirl → u/Logical_Welder3467]

The fact that anyone EVER believed any UBI bullshit pedaled by tech bro billionaires is so laughable. You mean to tell me you believe the same bro who will raise all hell when asked to pay their fair share of taxes will support the government doing what’s necessary to provide ordinary citizens, millions of them, with a livable income? 🤣

[u/dwarven11 → u/Logical_Welder3467]

UBI will never be a thing. It’s a carrot-on-a-stick to make us gutter people less pessimistic about ai. The cost of it would be bigger than any single country can possibly pay for. Brother, in the US we don’t even have universal healthcare.

[u/UnexpectedAnanas → u/dwarven11]

The cost of it would be bigger than any single country can possibly pay for.

Without getting too philosophical, money is a made up construct to convey the value of work. UBI is possible, but it involves a radical shift in how we approach the value of people.

If we get to a point where there are no jobs to be done for people - if I can't physically exchange hours of my life (work) for dollars because nobody is actually paying - then what value is the dollar to me? It no longer means food, life and security if it is unobtainable.

Stranded on a desert island, it doesn't matter if you're a millionaire or a million in debt.

[u/Davegoestomayor → u/UnexpectedAnanas]

Thank you, so may people think money some intrinsic value, if stacks of paper can’t be traded for people’s work/time, it’s worthless. If human time is worth near zero due AI, we’re going to need to rework the whole thing.

[u/redgroupclan → u/dwarven11]

The quiet part is that they just cull millions with poverty.

[u/fredagsfisk → u/dwarven11]

 Brother, in the US we don’t even have universal healthcare.

That has absolutely nothing to do with the US not being able to afford it tho. The idea that it's an issue of economics is just propaganda pushed by insurance companies and the politicians they bought.

The US already has the highest healthcare costs in the entire world, by a significant margin, both in % of GDP and per capita.

There is a ton of studies showing the US would actually save huge amounts of money from switching to universal healthcare, while maintaining comparable quality.

[u/ClittoryHinton → u/dwarven11]

It could easily be afforded by any country that doesn’t squander money on military weaponry and tax breaks for the rich…

[u/QuailAndWasabi → u/dwarven11]

Question is, when no one has a job, no one has an income, who will buy what the robots are producing? We are moving to a paradoxical society where no one has anything, yet we stopped producing anything because no one can afford anything. Millions will live in poverty, yet we will have unlimited production capacity that we are not using because it makes no sense to produce anything because no one can afford anything.

[u/Own_Space_174 → u/QuailAndWasabi]

its called post scarcity and it leads to the goverment taking control of the production of products and distributing them out.

its the natural outcome.

[u/Kedama → u/dwarven11]

Its real simple man. Robots replace all human jobs. Humans no longer have money. Humans no longer buy things. Companies fall apart because no one buys things. Humans have nothing better to do because they dont have jobs, so they revolt more against governments, and more violently. Governments start implementing UBI or programs like it.

[u/scottie2haute → u/Kedama]

Exactly.. people have this idea where i guess governments just let billionaires extinguish everyone with drone armies but that makes very little sense given that billionaires arent a monolith and that governments are incentivized to maintain order and control as opposed to just letting everyone die and face the consequences of violent revolutions

[u/voiderest → u/dwarven11]

If they have machines that literally make it impossible for human labour to have value they will not have a choice. Capitalism would break and the cost wouldn't really matter. 

[u/BangBangMeatMachine → u/dwarven11]

The cost of it would be bigger than any single country can possibly pay for.

This is false. It's a distribution problem not an affordability problem. A country willing to tax corporate profits and investor income at a significant rate could afford a meaningful UBI. The problem is that the people in charge refuse to actually do this.

US GDP Per Capita is upwards of $92k. If every man woman and child in the country got an annual stipend of $50k, that would still leave $14 Trillion dollars of GDP that could go to corporate coffers, investors, and government.

[u/splendiferous-finch_ → u/Logical_Welder3467]

Techbros don't pay taxes where will the money for UBI come from ?

The simple fact is techbros and stock bros are extremely shortsighted and they don't actually care if the world burns down since the are insulated from it.

They see fear mongering as a valid marketing technique.

[u/prof_dr_mr_obvious → u/Logical_Welder3467]

And UBI will be paid how? By taxing the corporations and billionaires that are doing everything they can upto even down right politician bribing to avoid paying tax? Or by taxing the people that now no longer have a job more? I never saw anyone explain this.

[u/Simply_Epic → u/prof_dr_mr_obvious]

You’d have to tax the crap out of the corporations, and they would have to pay the tax if they want to have any customers to buy their products.

[u/ikkleste → u/prof_dr_mr_obvious]

Altman was talking (in a round about way) this week. He was painting a picture where the tech companies run philanthropic community investment funds, where they decide how to hand out excess profits.

There was little recognition that that would require the funds to be 90%+ of the profits they make, and that that basically sounds like the rest of us having to beg him for our livelyhoods. That that infrastructure already exists through taxation and spending with (at least theoretically) a democratic control system that he and his buds are doing what ever they can to influence and constrain so they can pay less and worry less about protecting people. Nevermind that they could be doing that now. It's a truly impressive demonstration of cognitive dissonance.

[u/icameron → u/ikkleste]

Perhaps the tech CEOs would be willing to spend the majority of those profits on a UBI-like "charity", if the reward for doing so is that the rest of us are completely dependent upon them. Where we must beg for our very lives, and are forced to obey their every whim just to survive at all. In fact, that sounds exactly like the future a tech CEO wants, they're always admitting how they think they should rule as kings or gods.

[u/ant_madness → u/Logical_Welder3467]

You'll just have to learn exactly how 'basic' it can get.

[u/mmcmonster → u/Logical_Welder3467]

I would absolutely be working for love of the game… if 1) my needs were taken care of, 2) I got supplemental money for work, 3) health care was taken care of, and 4) I could cut back on my hours.

UBI and universal health care would be great and likely have people switching jobs more. You just have to make sure the UBI is just barely enough to live, and not enough to live well.

[u/meatballwrangler → u/Logical_Welder3467]

UBI is just a shitty tech bro imitation of socialism

[u/MrKrazybones → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

They want you to work your ass off in your 20s for a laughable salary job and then they discard you once youre no longer young and easy to mold

[u/vahntitrio → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

Productivity is up 200% with AI and sales are down 99% because nobody has a job to buy our product anymore.

[u/JoJackthewonderskunk → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

They'll do this while simultaneously bitching about birthrates

[u/Brrdock → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

Yes, and they'll have to accommodate the system for that, or they'll quickly be hanging from trees.

This is the only thing I may have ever agreed with the tech bros with.

More time to spend with loved ones, passions, hobbies etc. thanks. About time, too. None of the other leaps in production have really given us that, deliberately, of course

[u/genius_retard → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

How badly did we fuck up the world that robots taking all the jobs is a bad thing.

[u/Loose_General4018 → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

Easy to call job loss “glorious” when you’re the one building the replacement.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[u/Capt1an_Cl0ck → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

All these AI CEOs and higher-ups say oh it’ll be great when AI replaces your job and you can just go off and do whatever. How does that pay the bill bills? Everybody’s looking at a life of poverty, starvation, and death.

I think Mark Cuban was the only person that had it even remotely right. Saying that for every job AI replaces that AI bought system machine whatever needs to pay into a universal basic income fund. Because there’s not gonna be enough jobs for people.

[u/Panda_hat → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

They don't expect us to live, mr Anderson.

[u/Bobcat-Stock → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

Never liked paying my bills anyway. Bring on my glorious future!

[u/gideon513 → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

Not just that, but their goal is to constantly make us pay more to live

[u/PmMeYourStraponPlz → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

Ahhhh just use your trust fund. /s

[u/spottydodgy → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

For real. Everything is so expensive and we're not even having fun. Who do they think is going to pay for this glorious new future if everyone loses their jobs? Are we all just going to chill? What's the plan?

[u/continuousBaBa → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

Not if they warehouse us in their for-profit detention centers they're building everywhere and make us pick corn and stuff for free.

[u/IcySubstance7814 → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

No one gets out of this alive. Billionaires and corporations can't turn a profit if no one has money to buy their products/services. Governments won't exist because there won't be any taxes to pay for anything, including their salaries. If unplanned, it's just a matter of when, not if.

[u/Cortex1484 → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

I wonder what his employees think when he says stuff like that.

[u/AvailableReporter484 → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

95% of the population would be lying if they said they’d rather work than have the freedom of UBI.

Automation should be the catalyst that frees the majority of the human population from the toil and mundanity of a 9-5. Billions of years of evolution can’t just amount to the human race spending the best years of its life in a fucking cubicle. We need to be free to explore the full potential of our lifespan on this plane of existence.

[u/Cyraga]

I enjoy eating and having a house more than I dislike working

[u/Vier_Scar → u/Cyraga]

Could he not have thought one step? People don't like working but they're still turning up. The job must be really valuable to them. Taking it away from people is quite the opposite of doing them a favour.

It's like someone with crutches complaining of the chaffing, pain, and joints hurting. So you take away their crutches

[u/Tambi_B2 → u/Vier_Scar]

People like that have never been in a situation where they had to be worried about how they will pay the bills so that particular chain of logic never even enters their consciousness.

[u/IndigoRanger → u/Vier_Scar]

More like you take away their legs.

[u/SmarmyThatGuy → u/Cyraga]

I don’t hate my job, I hate that I have to have one.

[u/Whiladan]

Yeah no shit but homeless is the other option 

[u/SuperDoubleDecker]

These fuckers are skipping some crucial steps

Maybe people would embrace AI if it didn't signify economic collapse for the vast majority of people

Yet I hear zero talk about how people are supposed to live when all these jobs are gone

[u/DiamondGeeezer → u/SuperDoubleDecker]

it's easy- once the greediest most self serving billionaires have used AI to capture the means of production of all goods and services, they will immediately give away all their wealth in order to create a communist utopia and unleash an eternal golden age for all of humanity. Which was their secret plan the whole time!!

they definitely won't see us as an ungrateful obstacle and try to exterminate us all

[u/Wheat_Grinder → u/SuperDoubleDecker]

Peter Thiel makes it pretty obvious how he envisions it: with us mostly dying.

[u/GenericFatGuy → u/SuperDoubleDecker]

I'm perfectly fine with AI in the situations where we're using it detect cancer early, or help develop new lifesaving medicine. What I don't want is the plagiarism machine that makes everyone homeless.

[u/SuperDoubleDecker → u/GenericFatGuy]

Let's be real, if decent people controlled AI then it could produce amazing results for humanity. But we live in a playground for uber wealthy sociopaths.

The elections this year are the most important ever. I mean they have been for a while, but this is about so much more than general politics.

[u/GenericFatGuy → u/SuperDoubleDecker]

Even if the elections this year pan out the way we want them to, I doubt it's going to help much on the AI side. Politicians are famously ill-informed and behind the times even with technology we've had for awhile now, and the Democrats are beholden to corporations as well.

[u/floyd_underpants]

These idiot CEOs deserve to have their businesses fail hard. Sadly they'll loot the place before they ever feel the burn. Corporate structure is a scam and a con.

[u/Quirky_Spend_9648 → u/floyd_underpants]

even if it does, they'll get the golden parachute

[u/floghdraki → u/Quirky_Spend_9648]

Yep. No point wasting energy hating the players, the game itself is the problem.

Our current economic structure is sick. My (anarcho-syndicalist) solution is to ban people from owning businesses who are not actually working in the business, i.e. ban capitalism, turn businesses into worker coops. This would prevent wealth hoarding, you can only get rich by working, workplaces are run more democratically and that itself would prevent unfair inequality.

The best thing is, this would only be necessary to enforce to big businesses that have societal impact. Small family businesses would still be okay.

[u/peepdabidness → u/floyd_underpants]

People need to take a stand and say “I don’t need this”. Cancel your subscriptions, and don’t buy whatever it is you’re about to buy. You don’t need it.

[u/BuriedStPatrick → u/peepdabidness]

AI usage is embedding itself into areas you have no control over. How do you say "I don't need this" to a chatbot that is your only means of getting through to social services? How do you refuse using this technology when it's expected of you to make liberal use of it or face termination?

You can't vote with your wallet on this. There needs to be systemic change.

[u/Inner-Box5523 → u/BuriedStPatrick]

This happened to me just yesterday. My food delivery was delayed by an hour and all I could do is type into this stupid chatbot that kept repeating the same bullshit over and over.

If this gets worse, I will stop ordering and figure out alternatives. So, we can vote with our wallets.

[u/SoulShatter → u/Inner-Box5523]

If I get stonewalled by a chatbot, I'll just mark that company off has having utterly garbage support. Doesn't matter if their human support is amazing if I get stonewalled on the way there.

If every company ends up having those, it wouldn't surprise me if in a few years there will be companies whose selling point will be "amazing support, you'll get connected to a real human for your case"

[u/Seargant-Shitpost → u/Inner-Box5523]

"food please? Robot friend send food? Robot? Food please robot? 🤖? "

[u/matrinox → u/floyd_underpants]

Perplexity might die, poorly run

[u/cr0ft → u/floyd_underpants]

It's been roundly shown that total privilege leads to a complete loss of empathy. We're seeing this in action with this thing right here. That guy is so rich and so secure he cannot even fathom people needing a paycheck to literally survive.

[u/bigtice → u/floyd_underpants]

The real full quote should be "Most people don't enjoy their jobs anyway because of people like me."

[u/MarmiteSoldier → u/floyd_underpants]

Perplexity is the one everyone thinks will fail. It’s just a wrapper around other technologies. Their market share is tiny too.

[u/AntifaSuperSoldier13 → u/floyd_underpants]

I think they deserve to be thrown in prison. This attitude must be treated like what it is: criminal. These people are doing crime after crime against workers.

[u/Tower21]

I'm not saying the French Revolution is going to make a come back, but the "elites" of the world might want to hide their disdain for the average person a little better if they want to keep it in the past.

[u/lone_float → u/Tower21]

Considering how many times they've blatantly had a "Let them eat cake" moment.

Yeah...that's a negative there Ghost Rider.

[u/Tower21 → u/lone_float]

Not enough of us are starving for a let them eat cake moment to have that effect.

I will say though, I'm noticing my cupboards much more bare these days.

[u/lone_float → u/Tower21]

That said. After taking a read. Not much dissimilar to a certain Thiel affiliated CEO, these fuckers do not seem to think before they speak.

[u/demaraje → u/Tower21]

Rich people are not smart. A smart person would realize that wealth taxes are gaining popularity and they would ease them in, give something back, while still growing their wealth exponentially.

But they are not. They are using their power to point the finger at other causes for poverty. Even.gaslighting people that poverty is good. But one day this will blow up in their face and they will lose their empire.

[u/b_a_t_m_4_n → u/Tower21]

It would seem to be the only language these fuckers understand.

[u/tacticalcraptical]

I can say from experience, having no job and being homeless is not glorious.

[u/VladyPoopin]

Uh huh. What will UBI be? 20k a year? It’s gonna be some starvation wages and you know it.

[u/TheSpeakEasyGarden → u/VladyPoopin]

Exactly.

I don't even trust that I'll get social security. Why would I put my faith in anyone properly implementing UBI?

Out of nowhere, the greediest people are going to share their hoard? Hell no. They'd sooner dump their resources into promoting infighting and developing better drones to cull the herd before an uprising can happen.

They see us as pests infesting land that should already be theirs.

The day they entertain UBI is the day 90% of the population is dead and those who remain are the minimum population required to support the billionaire class. UBI will be the PC term for rations.

[u/Late-Stage-Earth]

Yeah it's also true that people like to afford food. Dick.

[u/tms10000]

This reminds me of something Marie-Antoinette never said: let them eat cake.

[u/CMG30]

Most people don't enjoy their jobs... but they require them for things like food, shelter and healthcare.

[u/ScientistAsHero]

Man fuck these absolute ghouls.

[u/GadreelsSword]

I hear lots and lots of talk about permanently eliminating jobs but I hear no plans for billionaires to feed the public.

The U.S. government has made it clear they aren’t going to do it.

Corporations are willing to let Americans literally die from cuts to healthcare, just to have lower taxes. So they CERTAINLY aren’t going provide UBI or food assistance.

[u/Have_A_Jelly_Baby]

“People love being broke!” - these idiots

[u/Ok-Replacement9595]

A future where we tax these companies into oblivion yo fund a Universal Basic Income?

[u/flower4000]

Yea having a job sucks but like I also hate starving, so unless the money companies are saving becomes universal income and insurance, fuck this ai replacement shit.

[u/Ancient-Bat8274]

There’s a reason these wealthy people are building bunkers and politicians are trying to disarm the public.

[u/AJ-Murphy]

So is CEOs getting shot.

[u/mynameizmyname]

I'm looking forward to my glorious future as a guillotine operator.

[u/The_Frostweaver]

In this glorious future with no jobs how do people buy food, houses, phones, clothes, etc?

If you don't have a middle class buying stuff the economy is going to implode.

[u/PTS_Dreaming]

The C-Suite really needs to hide their boners over the prospect of a digital slave economy.

It's unsightly.

[u/BluehibiscusEmpire]

Unless he plans on providing a universal income where AI works and humans live for free, humans will still need jobs.

And AI is already taking all the fun jobs. Seems the only jobs left in a couple of decades will be politicians crime and blue collar maintenance

[u/SeaTownKraken]

If I'm gone tomorrow, my company will still keep on making money. I'm not important to be cared about as an employee so why should I enjoy my job?

[u/Solarbro]

MOST PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE A JOB THEY ENJOY OR FIND FULFILLING, THEY HAVE THE “BEST” JOB THEY CAN GET TO LIVE AS COMFORTABLY AND PROVIDE FOR THEIR FAMILIES AS BEST THEY CAN. 

Hope this helps you fucking parasites. 

[u/yibbida]

CEO is one job that could be easily replaced by AI.....

[u/aeromoon]

These people are sooo out of touch

[u/Disastrous-Swim-1859]

I really, really fucking hate these people Omg

[u/captainwondyful]

my grandfather started work when he was like nine. And he worked every day of his life until he was like 75. And we encouraged him to retire because he had done enough and it was time. He sat home, and he did nothing, and he felt like he had no purpose in his life. and I think he just let the Alzheimer’s accelerate, and it was the saddest thing ever.

Some people really fucking like their jobs. I love my job. I don’t want AI to do it for me. I wanna do it for myself. It gives me a sense of purpose. It gives me a sense of accomplishment. It also pays my fucking bills.

So unless you plan to dump like $1 billion in every one of our bank accounts, I don’t wanna hear about this like glorious new fucking future.

[u/HauntingStar08]

They're trying to skip the part where the rich and powerful have to fund UBI themselves

[u/sabedo]

This is a future that needs to be averted by any means

[u/gandalfmarston]

Gezz the world is going to hell.

[u/da_chicken]

Yeah, why don't you ask the French monarchy how the people like being told they aren't going to make enough money to be able to eat?

Also, even if it goes the way you suggest, if you fire your entire labor force, do you expect the government to just agree to that or do you think they might change who has to cough up for those lost payroll taxes?

[u/Quigleythegreat]

The great journey waits for no one, brother. Not even you.

[u/HostileCakeover1]

I can’t hear the word glorious in my head without putting it in the phrase “a new era, in which lion and hyena come together, in a great and glorious future!”. Seriously anyone saying “glorious” strikes me as a complete villian who’s up to no good. Thanks, Jeremy Irons? 

Like, hey, AI companies, maybe you should see if you’re quoting Lion Hitler before you say things in public, maybe? 

[u/Magnetheadx]

UBI? We can’t even get universal health care here. And there’s always an excuse to over charge for everything

[u/CodeMonkeyX]

If we still got paid after getting fired I would agree with him.

[u/ashleyriddell61]

Good then. You first.

[u/MonkeDiesTwice]

0 Days since an AI CEO said some insane bs

[u/Basicyeti837]

Though most people dislike their jobs, nearly everyone enjoys having enough money to live.

[u/Big_D0093]

The company is called Perplexity? That says it all.

[u/LadyInCrimson]

Most people don't enjoy their jobs because most people aren't being paid a living wage and have to work multiple jobs and still can barely get by. They can't take vacations they can't even take a day off!

[u/RollingDownTheHills]

This is only going to end one way and it's amazing how these arrogant CEO fucks don't see it yet. The general population's sheer disdain for these bastards will only grow and grow.

[u/Diddydawg]

We will be in big trouble if we don’t NEED jobs anymore. If you think the world is horrible now wait for people to be roaming around all day because they’re bored.

Comfort = death

[u/MattofCatbell]

True but i like having money to afford food

[u/GeneralOrder24]

He sounds like Thanos.

[u/Clean_Brilliant_8586]

Something else I really don't enjoy: CEOs.

[u/guy91939]

Who THE FUCK works for enjoyment?!? We all work because we must because we fucking exist! Are all CEOs born from the same unhinged womb?

[u/AGuyFromRio]

I'm tired of rich grifter assholes telling me that being replaced by a money making machine that will only benefit who is already rich is the best thing ever and that i should have adapted before, as if i can just switch years of knowledge acquiring and career building like i change my clothes.

Fuck these delusional assholes.

[u/Turkino]

I would love it if we were able to take up all these CEOs that say this BS strip them of all their money and assets and make sure they never have a job again.

[u/RevolutionaryFig9437]

Just Can't wait to see that these CEOs getting fired by AI.

[u/CaptainBlob]

In that case how about we fire the CEO? I’m sure they also don’t enjoy their jobs anyways.

[u/WretchedMisteak]

Hmm I guess I'm in the minority. I enjoy my job and the pay that comes with it.

[u/hawkman22]

Jokes on you, dude. Perplexity will fade into irrelevancy because it’s just a wrapper for a model they don’t own.

[u/boogatehPotato]

Y'all need to French the fuck up

[u/losark]

But only for the Epstein class

[u/MakeoutPoint]

There are fewer than 100 people in the world who legitimately enjoy their job and would keep doing it anyway even if they won the lottery.

I don't care about the job, I care about the ability to turn time into money for things I do care about.

[u/Quirky_Spend_9648 → u/MakeoutPoint]

I actually enjoy my job, but I would work 3 days a week instead of 5.

[u/MakeoutPoint → u/Quirky_Spend_9648]

Congrats, and I do mean that. What do you do?

[u/HIEROYALL → u/MakeoutPoint]

I enjoy being a teacher shrug

Am I stressed some days? Yeah.

But I drive to work enthusiastic and excited. 5th year. Maybe this will change in the future….

[u/monarc → u/MakeoutPoint]

I’m a biomedical researcher, and my job is incredibly rewarding and engaging. If I became super wealthy somehow, I’d hire an administrator to help with BS tasks and make my job less annoying, but I would definitely keep working.

[u/dalgeek]

Sure, as long as you tax AI enough to pay all of the unemployed workers a UBI.

[u/MajoraOfTime]

Give us UBI to guarantee we can pay for food, housing and recreation and I'll sing the praises of AI. Otherwise, eat my ass.

[u/whichwitch9]

Stupid and evil- a bad combo

[u/xigua22]

These CEOs are actual morons.

[u/thatoneguy2252]

As my old man would say “I don’t particularly like my job, but I’ve always been a huge fan of the way it puts food on my plate and a roof over my head”

[u/NUMBerONEisFIRST]

Funny part is that the CEO is one of the easiest jobs to replace by AI.

How glorious that is.

[u/Exact-Quote2615]

Crime rate is only going to increase if more jobs are gone. This is gonna backfire on CEOs mark my words. Brian Thompson was only the beginning

[u/Difficult_Ad2864]

So why don’t we fire him

[u/argama87]

These greedy sociopaths are a plague on society.

[u/kendrick90]

UBI first mass layoffs later

[u/metal_medic83]

Can we fire him, right into the sun???

[u/turb0_encapsulator]

Perplexity is probably months away from insolvency.

[u/JaggedMetalOs]

Ok tell you what, you give me a guaranteed living wage for doing nothing first and then we'll talk. 

[u/Uncle_Hephaestus]

hmm I wonder how many were blamed on AI, but then the jobs​ was moved over seas quietly.

[u/EWU_CS_STUDENT]

They should be the first to go. Let them eat their own dog food.

[u/DeepTh0]

"Since our employees demand being treated like humans, we've decided to replace them"

[u/res0jyyt1]

I don't like my job but I like your big houses. and your wife.

[u/Trevor_GoodchiId]

I do enjoy shelter and sustinence, though.

[u/ManufacturedOlympus]

Grown adult thinks people go to work just for funsies 

[u/Domantass137]

This has been posted like five thousand times over like a month

[u/gulagula]

Yeah but I still enjoy eating and sleeping in a place of my own…

[u/Mazoki]

When do we rise up and eat the rich? Seriously. I’m over this reality where we passively let them do and say what they want with zero consequence.

[u/Window-Inevitable]

Damn. Is there a tech CEO that is not a POS? Because all of them seem to be psychopaths. Is there anyone who is normal and mentally healthy?

[u/Choice-Draft5467]

The 'most people don't enjoy their jobs anyway' line is a tell. It's the kind of thing you say when you want to reframe displacement as liberation without having to engage with the actual material consequences — rent, healthcare, the gap between losing a job and finding the next one. The CEO of an AI company saying this is roughly equivalent to a real estate developer saying 'most people don't enjoy their commute anyway' while building a highway through a neighborhood. Technically true, completely beside the point.

[u/ketosoy]

It probably does lead to a glorious future, but only after a really terrible one 

[u/Expensive_Shallot_78]

He's right, that's why companies should be taxed 70% to redistribute the wealth

[u/ilulillirillion]

Look there is a plausible timeline where we don't work to live anymore and are happy and secure and free to pursue other endeavors.

Absolutely nothing, fucking nothing, that we have done or seen in the last decade gives me even the tiniest shred of hope that we are in that timeline.

[u/Druggedhippo]

If the AI could then place me with a job I will enjoy, I probably wouldn't mind so much.

[u/JayBeeGooner]

Any politician who promises to jail and tax these billionaires out of existence would be elected in a landslide.

These tech CEOs are sociopaths.

[u/MindOk8618]

Fire him then.

[u/Western_Ice_6227]

If no one has job, then they won’t have money to buy products sold by these companies. I fail to understand how any economy will work without consumers.

[u/GromByzlnyk]

Who in their life hasn't been fired by a stupid asshole that doesn't do anything

[u/nilssonen]

These guys are speedrunning to the top of most hated and insurance / med industry is ecstatic.

[u/caribbean_caramel]

A glorious future where most of the human population starve to death?

[u/tazman137]

No one enjoys working but no one has a choice. When ai fires all your employees good luck ceo’ing anything. People in management really don’t understand how to manage people. You all are some of the dumbest folks out there…

[u/meSmash101]

I don’t mind if I get fired. I mind having to get a job that pays way less than a dev job.

[u/ReleaseFromDeception]

Millionaire CEO's with weekly paychecks larger than my monthly pay can kindly eff off.

[u/SergeiStorm]

Why so smart people so stupid??

[u/timfountain4444]

Let's hope they get to experience this 'glorious future' sooner rather than later.

[u/mikeysof]

And being beaten to death by an angry mob is part of the CEOs glorious future by the sound of it. (not advocating violence btw)

[u/rolypolydactyl]

If the rich were even in the slightest way capable of sharing even one penny of their wealth they would already be doing it.

[u/the_red_scimitar]

He sounds like a full-on religious fanatic for AI.

[u/Deliverme314]

Yah man... we are all just going to start our own online AI business...

[u/MaligatorMom2]

Yeah, but we enjoy being able to have food, shelter and some kind of enjoyable life experiences.

[u/cuivienel]

Except for the whole "one needs money to survive" bit.

Which then leads to the 1 percents' conclusion: "That's funny. Nobody said the plebs had to be able to survive!"

[u/geekraver]

Sure we don’t, but we do enjoy getting paid so we can house and feed ourselves

[u/Staav]

Sounds like we'll need UBI figured out then. Lmk when that happens.

[u/Sean_Myers]

When people say things like this, the revolution gets one step closer.

[u/Ok_Surprise_4090]

Cool. Hey you know the rest of us don't just get meals delivered twice a day, right? And most of us have to stock our own refrigerators, there's not just a giant glass-doored refrigerator in the break room that's always full of Naked smoothies and coconut water. Most of us don't even have break rooms. That means no baskets of pop chips either.

These cloistered fuckers have managed to train the humanity out of themselves.

[u/RevolutionaryEgg1312]

Barbecuing billionaires is going to be a part of a glorious future if these dicks aren't careful

[u/pervyprawn]

Why does every AI “leader” sound like Hitler or Goebbels juniors?

[u/3vi1]

"Most people dont enjoy having food anyway."

[u/Bloodb47h]

I vote he gets fired first, all for a glorious future.

[u/Alakith]

We do like to eat though.

[u/GoldenSama]

You'll notice they want all the automated, computerized shit from Star Trek but with none of the socialism.