Braid Lord - Ripples in a Pond Lyrics

We're the first generation
Where we accept
This is the first generation in history
Of mankind
Where we
Where we accept that are kids are gonna be poorer than us
Right
It's f*cking mental what's going on

And what people aren't taking into consideration is
They take the advancement in A.I
Right all these office jobs
If you work on a computer now
Right
In an office
Right
You should be f*cking worried
Because this A.I
Right They don't
Once they've got it
They don't have to pay it any money
Yeah
It it learns
So once it encounters a problem on a computer
It it don't never encounters that problem
Ever again
It's not like you sat in a team of five people and
Oh errr
Dave's dealt with that issue before
Get Dave, he knows what to do
The A.I knows what to do

It's Ripples in a Pond

You don't need a team
It will never
It will never ever stumble on that problem once again once it's solved it
So it's constantly learning

Mental, it's terrifying
What is everyone gonna do
Where they, where they gonna work
Where's the income gonna be
It's mental, it's terrifying

It's f*cking scary and people
Need to switch on have a look about what's going on

It's ripples in a pond

It's f*cking scary you dickhead

It's like
If you take the apex predator out of an eco system
And then everything starts eating itself
You know what I mean
It all starts falling apart

Right so
For example
They let people go
The next thing
Oh we don't need to rent offices
But
That company has made job cuts
But
The offices
They employ people
They employ a reception
They employ people
They employ janitors
The next thing, they don't need the building
So
You've made job cuts
You can work From home
We don't need the building
Now the building's gotta make job cuts
D'ya know what I mean
Now, now
That building
Doesn't order stuff in
From suppliers anymore
Now them suppliers make job cuts
It's like ripples in a pond
Ripples in a pond

In the future at some point
I've got no doubt about this

There's no point in you
Going to work
Coz the A.I is better than you
D'ya know what I mean

If it's anything phone based
Or computer based
Yer f*cked

Ripples in a pond

It's only a matter of time
Ripples in a pond

Until
You're working from home
You know what I mean
You know
They might need people to meet clients and all that face to faces
But it will be a Skelton crew

In everything
They won't need you at all

Like I'm terrified me
It's like Ripples in a pond

Where they gonna work
What they gonna do
You go in a supermarket now
Right
Them supermarkets
And I know coz I worked at Sainsbury's
Right, Sainsbury's
Used to employ me
And there'd be
40 people on the checkouts
You go now
And there's 30 automated tills
People are walking around with scanners
Scanning themselves
And think
Oh yeah
This is the future, this is progress
But

That scanner use to be someone's f*cking job

Ripples in a pond

Well there's a window of what swings around Carl's head when he's on his own