> "people need jobs to be happy, so we should design our society such that they need jobs"

No, this is not what the article said. It's more "people need jobs to have any kind of leverage in society" which is something different.

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philipkglass 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think that "people need jobs to have any kind of leverage in society" is actually true, though. Retired people without jobs are (in-)famously known to be politically powerful, both regarding elections and regarding local political questions apart from elections (like city planning commission decisions).

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Root_Denied 31 minutes ago | parent [-]

Their leverage is a result of having the time to be involved in politics, which is itself a result of working for decades to build up to the point that they could retire. They're an end result of the system, not an exception to it.

	▲	xg15 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Not just the time, but also probably having been built up the expertise, social connections, reputation and wealth to be able to be elected on the council in the first place.

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asdfman123 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

To be fair they argued both. Jobs suck but we need to feel useful to other human beings. Jobs (either paid or volunteer jobs) are the only ways we consistently contribute.

Like maybe instead of making requirements docs you could pivot to counselling at risk youth... but AI is rapidly improving at that, too.