• anachrohack@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    It’s not a normative statement. I don’t necessarily think it’s good. I just don’t think people can be happy being useless

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      6 days ago

      Define “being useless”. It certainly seems that “being useless”, to you, it is either “not working” or “not creating monetary value”, which would be super ironic given that there are many jobs around the world that make the person feel useless or worse

      I’d say that anyone that feels the need to define themselves “by their role” has no clue on who they are or can be, needing the rest of society to direct them

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        6 days ago

        Everyone defines themselves by their role. If you’re only living for yourself, not helping anyone or doing anything for anyone else, why live?

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          6 days ago

          I was paraphrasing and trying to be nice. Fine, you didn’t say humans yearn for the workplace. You said humans existentially require the workplace.

          I think if AI replaces humans in the workplace, even with UBI, humans would cease to exist shortly thereafter as our lives will have become meaningless