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In reply to the discussion: This is the future. It doesn't include jobs for humans. [View all]ZX86
(1,428 posts)is not to struggle for survival and subsistence living. For the life of me why people think mundane and tedious work that is done better by machines is somehow noble is beyond me. I know, I know, we toil here and get our reward in heaven. I have an idea, lets adopt the economic system they have for distributing wealth in heaven and let the machines do the toiling here. That way we can devote human experience to things machines can't do like science, art, spending time with family, playing fetch with dog, enjoying sunsets, etc.
Isn't what we should be working for as a race is to get to point where we don't have to work anyway? I am so sick of this Western religion based philosophy that suffering is somehow noble and righteous. Suffering for a good cause is noble. Suffering to enrich oligarchs at the expense of every other living thing on the planet is nonsense. I really don't think as a race our goal should be to live the lives of plow mules for perpetuity.