“The future of work isn't remote versus office—it's whether work as we know it should exist at all”
Agree
- Most jobs don't contribute meaningfully
- Abundance could support different social models
- Work as identity is historically recent
- Artificial scarcity maintains control structures
Disagree
- Purpose requires contribution and structure
- Idleness breeds misery not fulfillment
- Utopian thinking ignores human nature
- Production solves real material needs
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