Viral take: If AI gives us time back, its greatest gift is revealing what we mistook for the cost of living
r0ck3t23 · x · 2026-10-16
A reflective tweet on AI and the future of work: one day a child will ask why people gave away most of their lives just to afford the rest, and we'll explain that work was the price of keeping the world together.
The author concludes that if AI gives humanity that time back, its greatest achievement won't be intelligence — it will be revealing how much of being alive we mistook for the cost of staying alive.
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