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Hi, Abel here:) I'll rant about philosophy, art, movies and books and will post some music. Enjoy my symphony.
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| 2 | What content would y'all like to see more? | 73 |
| 3 | 4096 characters is really short gin besmam. But I will not be found buying premium. (I can't even if I wanted to) | 96 |
| 4 | Machines, AI and whatever other technology we come up with would take care of all that requires human effort to sustain today. That includes governance, manufacturing, production, maintenance....etc. When any kind of question in the form of "But who will do ________?" comes up in your head, I want you to fill that blank with something other than a human. That is a true post-labor world.
Now the first question people tend to ask when discussing this kind of mass automation is something like:
"But if nobody has a job, how will they afford anything?"
And I understand why that question immediately comes up. Right now, for most people, access to things is directly tied to their ability to contribute economically. You work, you get paid, you use that money to access the things produced by everyone else's work.
But that entire chain begins with that assumption that we talked about earlier, i.e, that everyone else's work is necessary. I think asking how people will have purchasing power in a fully automated world is a bit like asking how people will afford candles after the invention of electricity. The question assumes that the thing which has been replaced must somehow continue to remain at the center of the system.
In a post-labor world, we need post-labor economic systems. And honestly, I don't know what such an economic system would look like. Maybe money still exists, maybe it doesn't. Maybe markets survive, maybe they become largely irrelevant. Maybe AI manages distribution, maybe humans democratically decide how resources should be allocated and AI simply carries out those decisions. The point is not to predict the exact institutions that would replace our current economy. It is to question whether our current economic imagination is capable of imagining a civilization where the condition it has always been built around, the necessity of human effort, no longer exists. | 94 |
| 5 | Post-Labor: A Thought Experiment
Current civilization, as we know it, very heavily depends on human effort. Of course, this may seem very obvious to most because...it's a human civilization, of course, it depends on our effort right? If we want food, we have to farm it, if we want shelter, we have to build it, if we want clothes, we have to fashion it ourselves, if we want stability, we have to set up a government (putting aside whether that has worked for most of us or not, lol).
Now because human effort is so fundamental to our civilization, it is one of the most valuable economic assets. People contribute into the system, then they get access to the outputs of said system. This isn't a description of any particular economic framework, in fact, this valuation of human effort sits so deep in our psyche that almost all economic frameworks assume it. I would go as far as to say that economy, as we currently imagine it, is just an organized system through which we lay claim onto each others' labor. Different frameworks might disagree on who owns the means of production, who receives the profits, how labor is compensated, how resources are redistributed...etc. But underneath those differences is the same fundamental condition:
Human civilization requires human effort to sustain itself.
We agree? (I don't really care, I'm gonna continue with the essay anyway, lol)
Now, let's talk about technology. I remember sitting in my 6th grade class and reading that the point of technology was to help make things easier for humans. It's something that was repeated all through out high school even. And even though that's not what we always use it for, that premise remains true. Humans use technology to make their lives easier. Now for most of human history, the difficulties of our lives came from our natural limitations. We don't have claws, so we invented spears, we don't have that much strength so we invented wheels to carry our stuff, we can't do math in our brains at the speed we want so we invented calculators and computers to do it faster. In short, we use tools to do things faster, more easily, with less physical effort, with less mental effort, or just more efficiently. What all technology has in common though is that it transfers tasks from humans to external systems.
Automation is a natural result of that commonality. The more the task that is transferred to an external system gets bigger, the less and less you need the human, until it reaches a point where you don't need the human at all. The pattern seems to look like technology's core premise is reducing the amount of human effort it takes to do something and if that's true then where is the stopping point to that pursuit?
For a long time, that stopping point looked like the inability for machines to think. Human beings remained necessary in the system because judgment, reasoning, communication, creativity,...etc, or in other words, cognitive labor, was the part of civilization that could not be automated out. That is until, of course, our dear friend AI came along. Technology has progressively reduced the amount of physical effort required from humans. AI represents the extension of that process toward mental effort.
So again...where does it all stop?
Well I personally don't think it does. I think, if this process is left to continue by politicians and those in power, we are increasingly barreling towards a post-labor world. What do I mean by that? I'm very glad you asked.
By post-labor world, I mean a world where human effort and labor are no longer the central assumptions of our economic systems like we discussed at the beginning of this essay. Imagine a world where you can farm if you want, sure, but you don't need to in order to eat, where you can build a house if you want to, sure, but you don't need to in order to get shelter, and you can fashion your cute top or your leather jacket yourself, sure, but you don't need to in order to cloth yourself. | 86 |
| 6 |  I stand by my statementπ | 163 |
| 7 |  I stand by my statement π | 1 |
| 8 | Finally deciding to watch Off Campus after all the hypeπ yitaylachu esti. | 167 |
| 9 | Who the fuck is spamming delete on these peopleπ
Link | 193 |
| 10 | Seeing a professional in a field learn something new and challenging and seeing the gears in their brains work as they figure out a pattern is one of the gifts of this universe kmr. | 222 |
| 11 |  Why did I just get this on my fypπ
(nostalgia ensues*) | 223 |
| 12 | Man do I miss this game. | 227 |
| 13 |  Y'all hungry, damnπ | 232 |
| 14 | +1 K naan - America (Album Version Explicit).mp3 | 232 |
| 15 |  I was just looking at Ethiopia's reported unemployment rate andπ y'all...ππ Wtf are these figures?πππ
4% is the "all time high" since 1991???πππ₯π₯π₯π₯π₯
I have to look into this and what they're calculatingπ please, if someone has done any research into this contact me. | 199 |
| 16 |  +7πππ | 177 |
| 17 | Now we wait till O'Connor follows suit | 145 |
| 18 | Another one bites the dust. Mtsmπ
Lmfao, joking, joking, this is honestly always great to see. | 143 |
| 19 | Wish I could be the daddy that neither one of us had
But I keep runnin' from somethin' I never wanted so bad
Sometimes I get upset, βcause I ain't blew up yet
It's like I grew up, but I ain't grow me two nuts yet
Don't gotta rep my step, don't got enough pep
The pressure's too much, man, I'm just tryna do what's best | 187 |
| 20 | Has anyone here seen Love Actually....a lot of people were saying it is insane gin man...nothing could have prepared me for the shit storm that this movie is. | 166 |
