marketlurker t1_j6u91of wrote
Reply to comment by Taliesin_Chris in The steam engine changed the world. Artificial intelligence could destroy it. - The Boston Globe by GlobeOpinion
I agree your job shouldn't define you, but it does provide the means to keep body and soul together, that is, money. Right now, the big motivator for companies is revenue and profits. If they can get the profits with less cost, they are going to do that. The consequences of their choices are going to suck.
Taliesin_Chris t1_j6ub69i wrote
No... money provides the exchange for things to keep your body and soul together, and we 'often' get money from jobs. But not just from jobs. Some people inherit the money, some people use the money to make money, some people own something worth charging for. Jobs are only one way of doing it. We get hung up on that reality because for most of us it is a job that does it, but we can find other ways to do it.
Maybe working at a company earns you shares, and you make money when that company makes money. Then when you've done enough, you let that do it for you.
That's just one idea. We'll hammer it out. Not immediately as people need to realize this isn't a joke, it isn't going away, and we can't just make people work jobs that don't need to exist because that does not actually create a fulfilling life. It does the opposite.
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