Some people wonder why Keynes’s prediction about 15-hour workweek didn’t come true despite all improvements in productivity. Maybe the horrible secret is that these days, with all the cheap technology and the knowledge available online, it is possible for an average person to construct a world-destroying machine… if they could devote enough time to this goal.
Which is why the Cabal of Scientists invented bullshit jobs and addictive websites: to keep billions of people occupied with something harmless, so that they don’t go and destroy the world.
Some people wonder why Keynes’s prediction about 15-hour workweek didn’t come true despite all improvements in productivity. Maybe the horrible secret is that these days, with all the cheap technology and the knowledge available online, it is possible for an average person to construct a world-destroying machine… if they could devote enough time to this goal.
Which is why the Cabal of Scientists invented bullshit jobs and addictive websites: to keep billions of people occupied with something harmless, so that they don’t go and destroy the world.
this is a web novel that explore a similar premise:
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/28111/ultra-ai