“Automation should mean freedom, but we'll use it to create new forms of meaningless work instead”
Agree
- Bullshit jobs already prove this pattern
- Power structures require keeping masses occupied
- Identity crisis if work disappears
- Capitalism demands endless growth and consumption
Disagree
- Technology historically elevated human potential
- New creative opportunities will emerge naturally
- Universal basic income changes equation entirely
- Cynicism becomes self-fulfilling prophecy here
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