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Of course. Having a job is comparable to being in prison. By those standards every single human to ever live has been in prison. Humanity will only be free onc

Of course. Having a job is comparable to being in prison. By those standards every single human to ever live has been in prison. Humanity will only be free once we're in a post-scarcity society.

andai 4y ago
While "freedom from labor" might be just around the corner (AGI, basic income etc.), there's still a lot of wiggle room between "confined to a specific chair for 8 hours" and "can spend all day snoozing on the beach" ! To put it another way, there are ways to make money that spark more or less joy, and much of this variation is possible even for "regular folks" working "regular jobs". But most of that possibility space is yet unexplored. Not sure whose fault that is, but I am reminded of the quote, "the opposite of courage in this country is not cowardice, it is conformity." Most people just do what everyone else is doing (i.e. the 80% who are dissatisfied with their work) and then wonder why they are dissatisfied with their work.
- pmoriarty 4y ago
  > "freedom from labor" might be just around the corner (AGI, basic income etc.) What use will the wealthy and powerful have for the unproductive masses after robots can do all their work for them? Is more likely that strong AI and robots will be used to ever more effectively control and oppress most of humanity than help or free them.
  - CatWChainsaw 4y ago
    No matter how many times this is repeated, it never seems to sink in. Talk about Intelligence and Wisdom stats being way unbalanced.
siva7 4y ago
GTP will free us finally. I'm serious about that.
- RugnirViking 4y ago
  what is GTP?
goodpoint 4y ago
> Of course. Having a job is comparable to being in prison. https://wikidiff.com/simile/comparison https://wikidiff.com/simile/comparison
- mejutoco 4y ago
  > while comparison is the act of comparing or the state or process of being compared Unrelated, but what a definition… using the same word to define itself, and several times.
DrThunder 4y ago
Humanity would be long dead and gone if they took on this guy's attitude. Freedom to these people is forcing everyone else to do the work of keeping them alive while enjoying the fruits of THEIR labor.

Of course. Having a job is comparable to being in prison. By those standards every single human to ever live has been in prison. Humanity will only be free once we're in a post-scarcity society.

andai 4y ago

While "freedom from labor" might be just around the corner (AGI, basic income etc.), there's still a lot of wiggle room between "confined to a specific chair for 8 hours" and "can spend all day snoozing on the beach" ! To put it another way, there are ways to make money that spark more or less joy, and much of this variation is possible even for "regular folks" working "regular jobs". But most of that possibility space is yet unexplored. Not sure whose fault that is, but I am reminded of the quote, "the opposite of courage in this country is not cowardice, it is conformity." Most people just do what everyone else is doing (i.e. the 80% who are dissatisfied with their work) and then wonder why they are dissatisfied with their work.

pmoriarty 4y ago
> "freedom from labor" might be just around the corner (AGI, basic income etc.) What use will the wealthy and powerful have for the unproductive masses after robots can do all their work for them? Is more likely that strong AI and robots will be used to ever more effectively control and oppress most of humanity than help or free them.
- CatWChainsaw 4y ago
  No matter how many times this is repeated, it never seems to sink in. Talk about Intelligence and Wisdom stats being way unbalanced.

siva7 4y ago

GTP will free us finally. I'm serious about that.

RugnirViking 4y ago
what is GTP?

goodpoint 4y ago

> Of course. Having a job is comparable to being in prison. https://wikidiff.com/simile/comparison https://wikidiff.com/simile/comparison

mejutoco 4y ago
> while comparison is the act of comparing or the state or process of being compared Unrelated, but what a definition… using the same word to define itself, and several times.

DrThunder 4y ago

Humanity would be long dead and gone if they took on this guy's attitude. Freedom to these people is forcing everyone else to do the work of keeping them alive while enjoying the fruits of THEIR labor.