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by howlin 890 days ago
Career focused culture has destroyed a large amount of social cohesion. If machines do more work, humans can go back to community building. Type A personalities that demand social mobility can play politics to see who leads their respective tribe. The rest of us can spend the time learning about the world, developing engaging hobbies, reading philosophy and experiencing great works of art. Maybe just focus on a personal spirituality and/or self-actualization.

There is so much humans should be doing to make our brief existence a little more happy and fulfilling. Little of this has to do about contributing labor.
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ChatGTP 890 days ago
I do think this sounds like a plausible outcome. I can even see the "AI wealthy" getting a bit lonely at the top and wanting to be part of the human race again.

Notice how rich people wear hoodies and train at the gym like everyone else now?

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FirmwareBurner 890 days ago
>Career focused culture has destroyed a large amount of social cohesion.

Eaxtly, spot on!

> If machines do more work, humans can go back to community building.

In an ideal utopic society, yes, but that's not what's happening. More automation replacing workers just means more people out of work from older jobs, means more competition and lower wages for the remaining few un-automatable jobs flooded with now jobless workers.

It's impossible to pull off if all the profits from automation go to those doing the automation instead of the disposed workers, but if those in charge of investing and reasearching automation would not get huge profits they wouldn't be motivated to invest in automation in the first place and we'd be back to the middle ages.

So what do we do? What's the realistic sollution? Do we go back to communism and have the state in charge of all economic planning and development? Maybe not since that doesn't works too well in the long run.

Ideally there should be a middle ground that's missing right now where replacing workers with autoamtion is done through union negociations at a steady pace to enure disposed labor can be retrained in newer careers.

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