Casino Owners Welcome AI, Workers Welcome Unemployment Lines
According to The Independent, AI could replace up to 95 percent of hospitality jobs in Las Vegas, endangering 92,000 Nevada workers by 2035. The article frames this as a looming inevitability driven by 'profit motives,' rather than a policy choice. What's missing? The proactive measures, or rather, the lack thereof, from elected officials whose campaigns are often lavishly funded by the very
industry poised to automate its workforce into the unemployment line. (One might wonder if any of that casino money will be 'reinvested' in retraining programs, or simply in higher executive bonuses.) It's not just 'robots are coming'; it's 'shareholders are demanding maximum extraction, public be damned.' We’re told automation is progress, but for whom? When corporations automate, they don't
replace wages with universal basic income; they replace them with record profits and stagnant communities. This isn't science fiction; it's capitalism's endgame, where human labor becomes an inconvenient expense. Perhaps the 'entertainment capital' could entertain the idea of caring for its human capital, before trading every smile for a circuit board.