There were definitely people arguing seriously that people wouldn’t do jobs at all in the age of AI, but I think that the original argument doesn’t matter, as something close enough to it is true, and has most of the force of the original.
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It also seems like most of the jobs that might be preserved are nonessential. Not sure what that means.
I think the correct word is that people don’t have to work to get most of what they want, and that the jobs don’t have to be done in the sense that if no one worked, society would essentially keep on going.
There were definitely people arguing seriously that people wouldn’t do jobs at all in the age of AI, but I think that the original argument doesn’t matter, as something close enough to it is true, and has most of the force of the original.
On this:
I think the correct word is that people don’t have to work to get most of what they want, and that the jobs don’t have to be done in the sense that if no one worked, society would essentially keep on going.