AI era as an automatic audit of how little we understand most work
_onionesque · x · 2026-09-13
The author argues the AI era provides an automatic audit of how poorly most people understand activities beyond a meme — citing how "future of work" discourse is mostly pushed by those who never held a real job, and extending the critique to other spheres as Graeber-style gibberish spreading in all directions.
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