BAM Team on AI

So the AI era is upon us.

There is a lot of talk about upskilling the workforce, whatever that even means, I for one am not sure. Does it mean to improve the speed of delivery of existing KPIs? In other words keep doing what you’ve been doing, but faster and maybe better?

Wouldn’t it be cool

if this opportunity to rethink so many things wasn’t wasted? Oh wait, we’re already way down that path.

But it’s not too late. It’s never too late to take steps that may directly contribute to the survival of the organization is it? I hope not, because there are a LOT of orgs that are going to have a VERY hard time trying to justify why they exist. Just so many things that made sense to outsource for example, that can now be handled in-house or by a very small team vs say an ‘engagement’ that used to mean months of professional services resources for instance.

This shift

is going to cause unprecedented levels of stress. Layoffs are likely to be massive if the current ‘value’ system remains in place.

If that happens, or perhaps I should say continues to happen, the transfer of wealth and power will be hard to fathom. The disparity that’s already obscene, will grow exponentially. Corporations and upper management will hold most of the wealth, and what used to be the upper middle class of knowledge workers will be largely unemployable.

This of course is a missed opportunity to take a performance windfall and apply the proceeds to repair a tattered social structure. It doesn’t make sense to allow the top-heavy model to run amuck when the outcome is so predictable. And bad. As in violence and turmoil bad.

This will make the Great Depression look like fun.

And the punchline? It be at a time of unprecedented overall wealth creation. Little if any talk of ‘depression’ will be happening, that’s just the bitching and moaning of those that ‘should have planned better’.

You would think that the massive overall shrinkage of consumer spending would give this plan a little friction. But then again, a lot of truly stupid and short-sighted decisions have just been barreling along lately, with little attention save the talking heads of political argument and some click-bait videos.

Gee, it’s almost like the single political party that’s running the show in Washington and most statehouses as well doesn’t really give even the illusion of caring anymore. The ridiculous facade of at least a two party system is finally visible to any with a modicum of common sense.

And Why

should they? There are enough voters apparently infected with toxomplasmosis and the resultant reduction of risk avoidance and higher propensity of mental illness (i.e. crazy m’fers) to keep voting for parties, people, and processes that blatantly do not act in their interest to keep them in power.

Ok, maybe the toxoplasmosis theory is a little RFK Jr. Perhaps Ivermectin is the solution. Or maybe it’s just too friggin late for any sensible solution to see the light of day.

Whatever.

Someday future generations will look back on us, if there are future generations, and there probably will be, and wonder WTF?!? Here was a gift of all the resources needed, available to solve every humanitarian crisis on the planet, feed everyone will leftovers, house everyone comfortably, healthcare available for everyone, and much much more, and it was just handed to a few people that happened to the captains of a certain industry at a particular time in history.

Ya can’t make this shit up.