Corporate Adviser Says the Ideal Number of Human Employees at a Company Is Zero

"My favorite way of capturing this: the ideal number of human employees inside of any company is zero. That is the number that they're trying to get to. When I say zero, I mean zero workers. As in factory [or] machine jobs. Like regular working people."

"AI is just the thing that allows us to continue what the Industrial Revolution started, which will enable the titans of capital to reach the natural, clean, happy state for any company: no human workers whatsoever."

"It is my belief that companies would rather be doing all the work themselves if they could, as opposed to paying humans to do it. Just the same way that they would rather have machines in a factory than have a bunch of humans doing those machines' jobs."

Daniel Miessler, a cybersecurity engineer and AI proponent, contends that human workers are already obsolete and companies should accept this reality. He explicitly states that the ideal number of human employees in any company is zero, clarifying he means all workers without exception. Miessler frames AI as the continuation of the Industrial Revolution, enabling corporations to reach their natural state of complete automation. He believes companies would eliminate human labor entirely if technologically possible, preferring machines over human workers. Critics note his argument describes a feudal technological dystopia where humans become tenants to AI systems controlled by a small number of tech oligarchs, while ignoring questions of infrastructure ownership and control.

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