| >Hopefully breaking the link between people's labour and their worth as a human. Not really possible until virtually all 'work' is done by robots. It will speed up near the end as finding workers will be more and more challenging. >I hope that as more and more things become automated and fewer people need to work, that we restructure society so they don't have to do bullshit jobs or work if they don't want to. Economists pretty well agreed we should have been down to a 10-15 hour week many decades ago. I've worked in MSP where I have a pretty good idea how little people actually work. So why are we still doing the 40 hour work week, mostly pretending like we work this much? Because there are some professions which do require the hours. Doctors for example? If all doctors stopped working 40+ hour weeks. What would be the wait times for doctors? How is AI going to solve this problem? Do we really want to stop having doctors and goto AI doctors? >Unfortunately, people have been hoping for this for as long as there has been machinery which multiplied humans' labour and it's yet to materialise, but I remain hopeful. The realization is machines already did it. They couldn't do everything but they did enough. Circling back to people's purpose and self-worth. This change has been detrimental to humans' feeling of worth. |