AI Unemployment: Modern Society Unprepared for Institutional Failure
menhguin · x · 2026-08-03
The author notes that while it's hard to predict mass unemployment, no major democracy is prepared for a cascading institutional failure. Modern society has fundamentally morphed around the central role of always-employed labor.
People are simply not prepared for the reality of asking, "okay, but what if it won't be?"
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