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Re:The radical idea of a world without jobs by pbhjpbhj on Friday January 19, 2018 @07:32AM (#16185712)
Agreed. However, if you drive a tractor and write code to drive tractors, say, are you a coder or a farmer (or a software engineering or a soil scientist ...).

Perhaps you see yourself primarily as a mother, or an artist, or ...

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Re:The radical idea of a world without jobs by TomMarius on Friday January 19, 2018 @07:34AM (#16185724)
I see myself as a human. What I do for money or for hobby doesn't define me all by itself. I'm interested in music production as well as in B2B sales. I'm a software engineer as well as someone who spends weeks at a time in the nature without any electronics at all. You can't say that I'm a software engineer or a DJ or a salesman. I'm all of these.
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