The Real Dystopia: Working 40 Years to Justify Your Right to Exist
VraserX · x · 2026-10-10
X user VraserX pushes back on the post-AI-jobs dystopia narrative: the real dystopia isn't a future without jobs, but being born into a civilization technologically capable of abundance yet forced to spend 40 years working just to justify your right to exist — "but sure, the robots are the problem."
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