This kind of goes along with what I've been thinking about working in general recently. Now, I'm an armchair economist at best, but it seems like as a society,

This kind of goes along with what I've been thinking about working in general recently. Now, I'm an armchair economist at best, but it seems like as a society, several beliefs we have about work are incompatible with beliefs about the value of human life and with the real world. I mean, we have this ideal of individual self-determinism in the United States, which suggests that anybody who is willing to work hard can get a job and become successful. I think that is becoming increasingly untrue, if it ever was true, but I think recognizing this point will be very difficult for our society. It seems like the two most obvious routes would either result in a massive welfare system, or abandoning the idea that everyone is created equal in an egalitarian sense. On the other hand, climate change is a huge issue. It would be interesting to see how much greenhouse gas emissions are creating by work of various necessity. I mean, on one hand, you need to grow food for people, and that seems pretty important. On the other hand, the greenhouse gas emissions used to construct billboards/advertising, and then light them seems like energy that would be very easy to save. You could cut back on greenhouse gasses in food production in various ways of course, but removing entirely unproductive jobs from the economy seems like it would make a much bigger splash. I mean, if those jobs were removed entirely, not only are you not using energy to product worthless crap, but you don't have billions of people travelling to a place where they do useless shit every day. I really don't like this solution (especially as someone who works in marketing). I have no idea how society would even structure itself. I think it's incredibly unlikely to be implemented in a successful manner, and I think it's far more likely that we just destroy people and technology until we are back in a place where everyone needs to be industrious. That's a really negative view, so I hope I'm wrong on all counts.