I think we should ask what do we do if many TECH ppl aren’t working bc there are lots of jobs that don’t need tech but still need doing. The desirability of the

I think we should ask what do we do if many TECH ppl aren’t working bc there are lots of jobs that don’t need tech but still need doing. The desirability of these jobs would shift how we think about them. Old people still need care, children still need care (tech can’t replace parenting we don’t know enough about what works vs what doesn't), food still needs to be sown and grown, trash needs to be taken out, water needs purification, materials need gathering, houses need to be built (different when a majority of ppl can’t afford them but they still exist), healthcare, entertainment (peak experiences need humans)…I’m sure we could think of many more. Some people would do creative things, writing art etc. some people would obviously be bad actors, a panopticon is not a great way to manage crime (a human problem w mostly human solutions). So no art anymore bc a machine can do it? No more imagination, no more human condition? This might be a silly question but why does the industry imagine that with LLMs everyone will just stop working? We’ll all just sit in our pods and collect UBI, dying of collective boredom rather than evolving new ways of existing? Is the concern how capitalism will work when there’s no wage slavery (or when there’s actual slavery/serfdom)? My blind spots are American, and I would love to hear more opinions!