• anachrohack@lemmy.world
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        14 days ago

        It’s not a normative statement. I don’t necessarily think it’s good. I just don’t think people can be happy being useless

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              14 days ago

              I was paraphrasing and trying to be nice. Fine, you didn’t say humans yearn for the workplace. You said humans existentially require the workplace.

              I think if AI replaces humans in the workplace, even with UBI, humans would cease to exist shortly thereafter as our lives will have become meaningless

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      15 days ago

      That’s a sign of toxic culture, not of men wanting to be defined by what value they can bring.

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        15 days ago

        *monetary value
        (in relation to toxic culture)

        (bcs value that people actuality bring to society often isn’t fairly valued in terms of money or even not at all)

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      15 days ago

      Even if so - the definition of oneself is what that person gets paid for, not what that person enjoys doing (or even is just good at)?

      (Especially with jobs, folk on LinkedIn will describe their job as anything but their actual everyday job, or lie/exaggerate about their job when with other people - so not even that “role” is true.)

      … like, lmao, except if it’s like a weird grinding kink or something.