VraserX: Using machines to end 'work to exist' will look absurd in retrospect
VraserX · x · 2026-11-12
AI commentator VraserX argues people don't fully appreciate how absurd our economic system may look in hindsight: billions spend their waking lives on things they wouldn't do voluntarily just to afford existing — yet the controversial idea is using machines to end that arrangement.
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