Decades of art hating knowledge work — now people are furious it's ending
Aryvyo · x · 2026-10-04
The author notes an irony: people have spent decades making art about how much they hate knowledge work, yet now that AI is actually relieving them of that burden, many are very angry — a pointed observation on society's conflicted feelings about AI automating white-collar jobs.
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