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Is a world where nobody needs to work a utopia or dystopia?



At this point a world where no one needs to work would be dystopian. Are we going to rely on the benevolence of our increasingly for-profit government. On the benevolence of our oligarchs to allow us the labor the robots aren't capable of doing yet? I see the promise of post-scarcity, but I haven't seen anything close to the technology it would require. Just greed. Corner cutting and rent collection for profit. I'd rather not see our medical back offices enshittified.


The insurance companies have already enshittified the medical back office to levels beyond comprehension.


Yeah, but why "extract value" out of every note? Seems like a better application for open source and non profits.




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