A post-work world may produce more weird, ambitious projects
VraserX · x · 2026-08-21
The author offers an optimistic take on the post-work era: when people no longer have to work and aren't exhausted by it, the world will likely see more weird, ambitious, obsessive projects — a counterpoint to common pessimism about what happens when work disappears.
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