Dan Faggella: work isn't a capitalist invention, it's life fighting entropy
danfaggella · x · 2026-10-25
AI ethicist Dan Faggella pushes back on the "work was invented by capitalism and AI should end it" narrative in a long thread: from single cells onward, life has always been a process of channeling energy and matter to fight entropy, and work is volitional effort contributing to the larger living system's persistence. He argues the system naturally flushes out pure takers, and that instead of wishing for less work in the AGI era, we should wish to remain useful contributors to the whole.
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