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[–] 27 points 12 hours ago* (6 children)

It's also that so much work is pointless and doesn't serve a proper purpose for humanity. Things like ads, a lot of office jobs where people sit in endless meetings, and so on.

I think humanity has realized it's wasting our lives but we can't think of another system that will work.

Maybe universal income but the downside of that is that it comes with AI and transhumanism, which will remove what is human about humans.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    I hate how a big chunk of my work has become to write reports nobody should read. Our team produces a report every January, that gets passed to our director, that gets compiled into a yearly lab wide report, that gets combined into a 5-year report, that get sent to the government to ensure continuous funding… so much time wasted by everyone

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    Why would universal income come with AI and transhumanism?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    If the corporate fantasy of replacing all jobs with AI were to actually come to pass, what are all the now jobless people supposed to do? Quietly wait in a back alley to starve to death?

    So either universal income happens, or the one percent learn that there's no level of technology that will overcome a two orders of magnitude disadvantage in numbers.

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