I have been thinking about this article a lot lately, trying to grasp the impact of self-driving things. I drove a lot last week.
Shit. it’s going to be dramatic.
No one should be asking what we’re going to do if computers take our jobs.
We should all be asking what we get to do once freed from them.
I freak out when I see that no one in power even acknowledge the massive incoming change. It’s going to be messy and ignorant. The near new paradigm just breaks people’s minds. Dissociating hard work and income is only new and “impossible” to process to privileged people others know, they’re already working hard just to survive and pay the bills. It is worth mentioning that there’s collectively enough money to take care of everything. Just one bank like HSBC makes 13 $billion in profit a year, just sitting on its ass, having computers making transactions. We can solve so many problems with that amount of money from just one bank, for one year. It’s mind-boggling.
Once I’m free from work because computers have taken over, I’ll work. I’ll build things. I’ll teach stuff. I’ll have dogs and we’ll work together and then nap. Starting a family feels way less scary in this setting.
There are tons of shit to do once we’re freed from work. Like work.