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0913856742 t1_j0afofr wrote

Reply to comment by green_meklar in The problem isn’t AI, it’s requiring us to work to live by jamesj

> Then why doesn't it? How did you get into that sort of situation?

Journalism. Teaching. Parenting.

>That would be unfortunate but I don't see how it creates any obligation on the part of anyone else, much less AI companies specifically, to pay taxes just to increase your work options. There's a big missing gap in reasoning there.

Gallup has shown over the past two decades that about two thirds of people either felt not engaged or were actively disengaged (i.e. hating) their job. How much stress, mental illness, and wasted human potential is that?

>(or if I do, it'll probably be a very uncharitable guess).

>...

>Very much. However, 'our current stupid system' and 'the stupid system suggested by the OP's article' do not constitute an exhaustive list of options.

Instead of being snide, why don't you just say what you think?

You seem to be very eager to blame the individual instead of examining the problems inherent in our current economic system.

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green_meklar t1_j0ra3fu wrote

>Journalism. Teaching. Parenting.

That doesn't really answer the question.

>How much stress, mental illness, and wasted human potential is that?

You're not addressing my point. You don't have to like stress, mentall illness or wasted potential, I don't like it either, but I don't see how that would automatically create obligations on the part of anyone else. (Besides your parents insofar as they created you and consigned you to some sort of existence in the world.)

>Instead of being snide, why don't you just say what you think?

I did say what I think. The article presented some reasoning that didn't make sense to me and I pointed out why it didn't make sense.

>You seem to be very eager to blame the individual instead of examining the problems inherent in our current economic system.

I'm quite interested in examining the problems, I've examined the problems plenty, however it turns out that the principles and solutions are counterintuitive and the vast majority of people would prefer to perpetuate bad (but intuitive and cathartic) ideological nonsense instead. That's why it's important for people to work through the problems themselves and understand what's going on, rather than just listening to more propositions thrown around out of context.

I don't really see how I was 'blaming the individual', other than blaming the article writer for posting bad ideas about economics, of course.

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