After Work — Asterisk Magazine
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Once you realize what that means, you’ll be giving two cheers for the American work ethic.
Clara Collier Once you realize what that means, you’ll be giving two cheers for the American work ethic. What will people do all day? I mean, of course, if the AIs surpass us at all economically necessary forms of labor. There’s an emerging consensus on this point, assuming we’re all still alive and not subjects of a cyberpunk feudalist dystopia. When the machines can do everything else, our relationships will be what’s left. Maybe we won’t have to work at all. Or maybe we’ll still have something that superficially resembles modern employment, just concentrated in what economist Alex…
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