[mapontosevenths]

This is a great question. Thanks for asking it. It really got people talking.

My $0.02: Your value as a person never had anything to do with your value to the economy. It's time to relearn that fact.

Check out some of Tom Hodgkins books for more. Or maybe anxietyculture.com.

[tock]

Yeah but what is a persons value economically anymore? What skillsets will enable us to continue to make a decent living till we are old?

[hoppp]

It's funny because if people get replaced and don't have money they won't pay for API tokens either so the retail AI business collapses too, there won't be enough demand because people rather buy food.

[StefanBatory]

But it is. My worth is based on what my value is, what I can do. What when I can no longer have any value on the job market?

[mapontosevenths]

Your economic value and your value as human being are two different things.

Yeah, you gotta eat, but some of us have been slaves for so long that we've started to believe that our self worth is defined by what we will fetch at auction. It is not.

Read more about the Protestant work ethic, it's history, and what life was like before men began to assume it was the one true view of life. Not very long ago nobody had clocks, and the idea that work was an ethic was a fringe, almost cult-like belief system. Now most humans routinely take stimulants every morning to be better servants, and mistake their job for their purpose on earth. That's just nonsense our culture invented though.

If the master wants you to do something, force him get out the whip. Don't let him live in your head rent free by adopting his crazy belief system.

YOU decide what your value is. Don't abdicate the decision to someone else.

[achierius]

Sorry, but most of us need to work to eat. This idea that our "value" is has nothing to do with the economy is an idea rooted in deep privilege, in the ability to say -- if I don't like my job, if I'm not employable, I can just retire, and the only problem will be figuring out how to live life afterwards.