Re:Jon Stewart on AI: It's replacing us in the workforce now
by subjectsigma on Sunday April 07, 2024 @07:32PM
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> put from another angle : do you think it's great that people can't find identity without employment?
That’s like asking me if I think it’s ‘great’ that people have two legs and a finite lifespan. It just is. What you choose to do under constraints is a big part of your identity.
> it seems to me we should treat 'lack of identity and self worth due to lack of employment' as a pathology
Man, is there anything that isn’t a pathology these days?
similarly : work exists outside of wages, as do co-operative and unpaid grand works.
the (probably fantastical) hope is that when a 'living wage' as a concept disappears it will free up people to pursue things that they're actually passionate about to form an identity and purpose.
put from another angle : do you think it's great that people can't find identity without employment?
it seems to me we should treat 'lack of identity and self worth due to lack of employment' as a pathology rather than something that we need to feed employment into. the human condition has lasted a lot longer than our current hyper-capitalism-centric ethos about work and passion; if people are becoming worse for it we should probably change the habits and motivations rather than providing their pacifier and acting as if it's a normal human thing for a psyche to dissolve when allowed to act as a free agent.