It comes from how technology has worked in the past.

Think of how the steam engine and industrial revolution took away hundreds of millions of jobs. How every leap in technology replaces the need of thousands of workers, freeing them up for other professions.

If you follow this logic forward, you end up at a point where labor is entirely replaced by machines. It isn't too far fetched, as jobs are already being replaced with bots, and anything you can teach a person, you can make a bot to do the same thing and instead of costing minimum wage, it costs pennies of electricity. There are exceptions to this, but those are being eroded away as time moves forward.

Eventually you run out of professions for people to be freed up for, and you end up with an employment crisis. We tied the ability to live directly to employment, and now that system and the progress of human technology are at direct odds with each other. If tech advances, people lose their jobs. The problem isn't that they lose their jobs, it's that their ability to not starve to death in the street is dependant on their employment. When there's more people than jobs, and no system to deal with this, those people die.

You solve this in 4 ways.

1. You let them die.

2. You create jobs for jobs sake (basically menial labor that is meaningless, but exists so people can be employed)

3. You stop technology. This is simply impossible.

4. You decouple the ability to survive from employment, and use the surplus generated by the mechanized economy to allow people to live as they wish, while machines and bots do the work.

AI should replace you and it already is

Having jobs for jobs sake is stupid and one of the goals of technology should be making human labor of any kind obsolete.

Tying work to your ability to thrive in society will bite us hard in the future. It is already starting to sink it's teeth into us now, and people are panicked about their jobs going away.

Most articles you read online are written by AI. Most jobs that took entire buildings full of people are now done by 1 person on a computer, and a months worth of work is completed in an hour.

AI replacing jobs is the natural progression of technology. The wheel replaced haulers. Irrigation replaced water gatherers. Farming replaced gatherers. The steam engine replaced millions of jobs. The cotton gin replaced people processing cotton by hand. The computer replaced thousands of job titles. AI is simply the next step. All human progress has been in the aim of reducing labor and increasing output, and in the process, you take thousands of sometimes millions of people's jobs and free them up for other needs. Those needs get automated, and the process repeats. This ends in all labor being done by machines.

We have tied the ability to feed, clothe, and shelter ones self directly to employment, and that worked up to a point. We have been beyond that point for decades.

We need to move on from this antiquated societal structure. Decouple the ability to live from employment. We are not ants in an ant hill. We are better than that. If we don't solve this problem (and global warming doesn't wipe us out first) It will be the end of us.

That explains my 30 nips