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bluefirebrand 19 hours ago

I can't get the original tweet to load at all, so I'm only responding to the headline here

Of course it's a labor crisis. It is also a meaning crisis. It will probably also be a financial crisis before all is said and done, based on how things are going

AI is a massive lever of power to pull. The more autonomous it is capable of being the more powerful it is

It isn't a surprise that many people are defined by and find meaning in their labor, it is what we spend a massive majority of our lives doing. Anything that threatens our labor also threatens our meaning. These concepts are pretty tightly coupled.

The question we need to answer is: How do we navigate a world where we have removed labor, both as a function of finding meaning and as a function of earning a living? The answer isn't as simple as free bread and circuses. We will have to replace people's meaning somehow too.

Frankly I'm not even convinced that the people in power will even hand out the bread and circuses either.