Workplace Truth in the AI Era: Your Job is Adult Daycare
whatsallthiss · x · 2026-07-30
The author suggests that in the age of AI, many people are realizing that the 'joke' about their job being adult daycare is, on a deeper level, not a joke at all.
This reflects the reality that the core value of many modern jobs may not lie in actual output or creation, but in maintaining systemic presence and human companionship. As AI increasingly takes over substantive tasks, this underlying nature of the workplace is becoming more apparent.
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