Re:The era of jobs is ending
by kaluga on Monday December 08, 2025 @05:31AM
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The provocative part of this essay isn’t that “jobs are ending.” It’s that a huge amount of modern work was never economically necessary to begin with — AI is just exposing it.
When a model can do a week of “knowledge work” in 20 minutes, the takeaway isn’t that AI is magical, but that the job was structurally padded.
The real question isn’t whether automation replaces work; it’s whether we can decouple survival from employment before the collapse of the job-based social contract hits ordinary people harder than any technology does.
When a model can do a week of “knowledge work” in 20 minutes, the takeaway isn’t that AI is magical, but that the job was structurally padded.
The real question isn’t whether automation replaces work; it’s whether we can decouple survival from employment before the collapse of the job-based social contract hits ordinary people harder than any technology does.