Young professional's AI-era despair about work sparks pushback on human worth
nitarshan · x · 2026-10-15
A scholar shares a moving message from a mid-20s professional despairing that younger cohorts will never get to do the interesting intellectual work seniors do, feeling reduced to "a puppet who presses Enter." The rebquote pushes back: reading, writing and arithmetic were invented to count cattle, and Homo sapiens existed 315,000 years before agriculture — there are more ways to be human than most conceive.
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