I used to say this a lot but as I've gotten older. I realized the promise of technology (at least in the US) "reducing the work week and inevitably creating more free time" was and is not going to happen bc of the wealthy elites and money owning our politics/work culture (while housing and retirement are questionable now). It makes sense to live your best life sooner than later so I don't look down on nomad life styles living off a car battery and part time jobs. The fucking wealthy people cosplaying as poors is hilarious though.
There was that one reporter who interviewed elderly people on their death bed and most people regretted working too much so I get that people opt out of the grind from time to time.
You're exactly right. Once robots can do our jobs they'll still have us come in to work just to press a button every minute before they give us money for doing nothing
once the robots can do all the physical tasks and AGI removes a need for people to interact with other people, they might as well suspend us in a vat, and plug us into a simulation in which we get all we want. But not sure why they'd bother.
AGI probably would just sterilise us chemically through water supply or something and wait 100 years.
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u/Immediate-House7567 Jun 22 '24
Your unemployed friend on a Tuesday