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Down_The_Rabbithole t1_it6lat1 wrote

There is another aspect that you didn't take into account yet:

> Work has to be productive and add economic value

What the covid lockdowns shows us is that there are a lot of "bullshit jobs" out there that don't provide any value and aren't missed when gone but still exist just to keep people busy. It's more than likely that humans will keep having work just because our society likes it for people to do labor, even if that labor is useless.

We as a society need to recognize that labor for labor's sake is bullshit and that we should just provide people a decent quality of life without having to go through this useless ritual of sacrificing 8 hours a day to something that doesn't add value to society.

I'm afraid of the opposite of what people claim in this thread. I'm not afraid of mass-unemployment. I'm afraid of people not losing their jobs when their labor becomes obsolete

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