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It's in some ways, depending on how you look at it, it's even more extreme than Marx - at least Marx wanted to give everyone meaningful work. Even if the anti-
by skim_milk 5y ago
It's in some ways, depending on how you look at it, it's even more extreme than Marx - at least Marx wanted to give everyone meaningful work. Even if the anti-workers get what they want, computers and robots doing everything, how are we getting there, and how do we find meaning in this post-work state? I would certainly not find meaning in watching entertainment 16 hours a day, but not even non-stop travel, hiking, leisurely conversations with our fellow liberated people (the stuff I like doing after work) could fill my void. I don't think it's stockholm syndrome to desire to fill all of our lives with some meaningful work and contribute to a society that loves you back! At least they point out the flaws of dog-eat-dog structured life, but the means to, the end-goal of, and the easiest society to pivot into that makes human life function certainly ought to be through meaningful, mutually value-adding work.