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1 posted on 02/12/2026 4:17:06 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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The staggering salaries — and perks — of LA County bosses who voted for infuriating tax hike

https://nypost.com/2026/02/12/us-news/la-county-supervisors-back-half-cent-sales-tax-hike/


2 posted on 02/12/2026 4:19:38 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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I mean sure, Matt, but what can we do about it? What’s that? You have a service you happen to be selling that will help us?


3 posted on 02/12/2026 4:24:57 PM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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Why do we need an H-1B work visa again?


4 posted on 02/12/2026 4:25:24 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn... )
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Give these CEOs 5 customer issues that require human involvement. Make them navigate THEIR AI maze. I guarantee that each one would fail.


5 posted on 02/12/2026 4:27:00 PM PST by Dacula (Jesus is the only true savior. I reject satan and his pedophile fake prophet.)
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AI the new DEI ,LOL


6 posted on 02/12/2026 4:29:14 PM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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Career Ladder has traditionally been:
Entry level position —> Middle Management —> Senior Position

Well, the entry level positions are getting cut really drastically, so I don’t know how people will start their career.

And most industries decided years ago that Middle Management is a waste of company money, so Middle Management got hollowed out a long time ago.

But we still have Senior positions, don’t we?

So you can’t be entry level, you can’t be in the middle,
but you can start your career as a Senior Vice President in charge of the Pacific Region.

Seriously: Our society better start putting some thought into a world in which most people have nothing to contribute to the national economy.


7 posted on 02/12/2026 4:31:41 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Law and Order -- only one of our political parties believes in it.)
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I just read another article stating that many middle managers are recognizing the folly of firing their seasoned software developers after observing that AI produces lots of useless slop. That "rescue" may not hold over other job types that AI is replacing, but it is evident that AI isn't the ultimate solution for software engineering.
8 posted on 02/12/2026 4:33:40 PM PST by Myrddin
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Cool. I was anyway thinking of moving to Minnesota and opening a child daycare and learing centre

skimming from government debt and printed fiat, is a lot more profitable than working in my cubicle anyway.


11 posted on 02/12/2026 4:35:50 PM PST by PGR88
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Only 50%? I bet it ends up being more.


15 posted on 02/12/2026 4:56:36 PM PST by simpson96
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When AI can lay block, pour a driveway, replace an HVAC motor, do a brake job or even turn a screwdriver I’ll consider being impressed.


16 posted on 02/12/2026 4:58:18 PM PST by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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Ai will have to strain to produce entry level subject matter on most subjects even straight out of the book


17 posted on 02/12/2026 5:03:07 PM PST by Recompennation ( Deeeeeeeeezout)
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Perhaps they should ask AI how to prevent the job losses...since it will apparently “know everything”


18 posted on 02/12/2026 5:18:25 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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We are in a 90’s situation again. Instead of exporting jobs to China and Mexico via government trade deals, nafta, globalism, and rewarding communist china.

We are now witnessing our government actively sponsoring and pushing more money into areas where the entire point is to get rid of the inefficient human laborer. Tens of billions from citizens to destroy those ‘jobs’. Good luck out there.

22 posted on 02/12/2026 6:09:50 PM PST by Theoria
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For those of us old enough to recall, this is the same kind of silliness we heard 35 years ago, except the word was “computers.” Computers were going to replace virtually all entry level workers. Humans would no longer be needed as computers would do everything. Computers were going to do this, going to do that. They took the same old mid 1990s hysteria and just replaced the word.


24 posted on 02/12/2026 6:44:53 PM PST by Terabitten (Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor...)
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Will probably work as well as replacing the tech jobs with Indians. It has not gone very well.


27 posted on 02/12/2026 7:11:39 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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yawn, baloney


28 posted on 02/12/2026 7:47:31 PM PST by Jonny7797
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It may be that AI doubles productivity.

When designing systems, picking the sweet spot of human/machine work sharing is important.


31 posted on 02/12/2026 8:50:55 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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