Relational jobs like kindergarten teaching are dignified and hard to automate
binarybits · x · 2026-09-10
Responding to an essay on AI and work, the author pushes back on the premise that relational jobs are meaningless: a public school kindergarten teacher is intensely relational, unlikely to be automated, yet dignified and meaningful. He adds that unlike 18th-century France, modern America has many impersonal mediating institutions (like public schools) letting people of different backgrounds relate on roughly equal terms.
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