Comments by "Brenda Rua" (@brendarua01) on "Why jobs of the future won't feel like work | David Lee" video.

  1. What an inspiring talk! David Lee shows how we are at a cusp, one where humanity can blossom when freed from drudgery, or where we collapse into a degraded morass of skilled elites and unemployed drones. I'm reminded of the early social and economic theories of work, and how it can nurture and enable our potentials to be fulfilled, or it can be twisted toward other ends such as mere efficiency or profit or status, and thus alienate people from their work and from other people. Sound like Marx, Marcuse to you? You'd be right. Have we come full circle? Or maybe it is the historical dialectic at work?
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  2. Simone I agree with you about a universal income. I've commented about it before, an I think you have too. It is inevitable or there will be chaos in the streets of the world. But that leaves the opportunity to develop real work and skills that affirm wellness and life since work will not be tied to narrow views of profit and capital, views that make people into mere objects. That is part of the presenter's message.
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  3. Petr Put ideology, with all its baggage and simplistic labels aside. You have a vision that steers us away from the darkness ahead. That is something noble to work for.
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  4. Walper I think you kind of missed the deeper point of the presentation. This point is that AI and robots will free people from much labor. So there is no sense in which socialists or anyone is taking "your" product or the profit you produce. Whether socialists or capitalists take it, is not on the table at this cusp in time. Not in any normal sense anyway. The question becomes what to do when this happens.
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  5. vvni I agree with you. AI an robots may ultimately let us break the ties that limit people and make them mere objects like machines, a means of profit for others.
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