When machines do everything else, relationships are what's left for humans
ZeroStateReflex · x · 2026-11-09
Sharing an emerging consensus: assuming we avoid a cyberpunk feudal dystopia, "when the machines can do everything else, our relationships will be what's left." Maybe we won't have to work at all — but human connection remains the irreplaceable value.
The poster frames this as being "forced through our biological machine optimization to work on ourselves": under the logic of efficiency, maintaining relationships becomes the work.
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