Jared White (🏳️‍⚧️ ally)

Think about it.

Who is used to a lifestyle where they get waited on hand and foot? Rich people.

So obviously rich people (and wannabe rich-adjacent people) are the ones pushing this false narrative that the general public is clamoring for “agents”.

We're not.

Honestly, I don't need Digital Jeeves 3000 to plan my kid's party, order my sandwich, check in on my dry cleaning, read my mail, text my friend, or *anything else* really.

What I need is more pay, healthcare, and better bike lanes. 🤨

Jun 4 at 6:48pmWeb
Show threadMatthew MoneJun 4
@jaredwhite wait, I thought billionaires where billionaires because they obviously have to work millions of times harder than the rest of us, no? How can they be used to getting waited on when they are working so gosh dang hard!
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Show threadJared White (🏳️‍⚧️ ally)Jun 4
@matt dontchaknow? ~~taking credit for~~ coming up with brilliant ideas that other people go act on is the hardest work of all.
Show threadchuckadeus kummererJun 5
@jaredwhite @matt nah, it's just adequate compensation for all the ~responsibility~
Show threadGene Cowan 🏳️‍🌈Jun 5
@jaredwhite @lisamelton Problem is, like the rich people lifestyle, it still requires poor people behind the agent to do the dry cleaning, the sandwich making, the food delivery…
Show threadCassandrichJun 5
@jaredwhite The lifestyles they have, and think the rest of us want, are so utterly disgusting.
Show threadMarijnJun 5
@jaredwhite yea, I was thinking the same when some tech mogul (i forget which) said he used AI to ask questions to podcasts. How weird is that?
Show threadUrban HermitJun 5

@jaredwhite and most of us, if we allowed an AI to book a flight for us, would check on the price and details obsessively. We don't make enough money to treat purchases as casual mistakes.

The people who want us to let AIs make purchases for us: #1 want to buy the AIs influence outright instead of spending on dubiously effective advertising. #2 can't relate to us at all. "Let us relieve you of the BURDEN of making so many purchasing choices. They are so tedious and boring."

Show threadHavyhh2Jun 5
@jaredwhite ...exactly right! About the only "agent" I need, have ever needed, was....an alarm clock, and that only occasionally!
Show threadOwlorJun 5

@jaredwhite A lot of 'modern conveniences' feels like being sold the fantasy of being a plastic noble. Like, even things like cars and lawns feel more like a hollow version of having your private carriage and estate than something you actually need.

Now you too can have a servant while you work too long and can't afford shit, don't you think your ancestors would be proud of you?

Frankly, if we wanna modernize any historical lifestyle, I would've preferred the one where we lived in close-knit communities and helped each other survive. That lifestyle plus modern healthcare would be so much more enjoyable than acting out the motions of being an aristocrat but without any of the quality or leisure that would've come with that.

Show threadTerryBJun 5
@jaredwhite Such services often seem to be like a kind of badge for people who like to pretend they're too busy and important to do ordinary stuff.
Show threadMisuse CaseJun 5
@jaredwhite The rich also don’t use AI to do these things for them. They use humans to perform these services. They insist on it.