A Middle Way for Work
This is the time when we should start to redefine what work means for us. Obviously, technology is starting the talk with AI and machines. In fact, its technology itself what brings the question. Sometimes things tend to be reduced to the over repeated “machines will take our jobs!” and there’s this thing about living a purposeless life because UBI and human obsolescence. Having a job doesn’t automatically give people a purpose. This is more evident now in this individualistic society. For some is just paying bills and affording streaming services. Yeah, some workers think about their families, their country, or even humanity, but that only shows it’s all about human connection not just the working. A jobless society is not necessarily a work-less society. People who feel the impulse to do things are called “ambitious”, and people who doesn’t know what to do with their lives are pointed at as “lazy”; both of them would exist in a AI/UBI sponsored jobless society. There are jobs...