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Work should only be done if you enjoy it. Making a living in a way that you are passionate about, and which brings you joy, should be the focus of work.

Working a job you dislike just for the money is not good for you or your soul. I see a lot of jobs in the future being automated, but with people who actually enjoy specific jobs still doing them, even if they are 99% automated. I think there're jobs that aren't necessarily complex, but bring people enough joy that they don't want to give it up, and choose – as is their right – to do it to support themselves. Jobs like carpentry, for example, are jobs people are passionate about. They enjoy creating things like that and using their skills to do so. I do not think that should be looked down upon as something people merely do to slave away to survive. I think with the recent work walk-outs that the shift towards automation has significantly accelerated – and I think that's a good thing. What's important though,…


Working a job you dislike just for the money is not good for you or your soul.

I see a lot of jobs in the future being automated, but with people who actually enjoy specific jobs still doing them, even if they are 99% automated.

I think there're jobs that aren't necessarily complex, but bring people enough joy that they don't want to give it up, and choose – as is their right – to do it to support themselves.

Jobs like carpentry, for example, are jobs people are passionate about. They enjoy creating things like that and using their skills to do so. I do not think that should be looked down upon as something people merely do to slave away to survive.

I think with the recent work walk-outs that the shift towards automation has significantly accelerated – and I think that's a good thing. What's important though, is supporting yourself by doing what you love.

There'll probably be a fairly competitive job market in the next 10 years as things become automated and the jobs that aren't will have many people vying for them. I just hope that in that time we also get rid of overly-restrictive, prohibitive hiring practices like requiring master's degrees for things like entry level jobs.

Back to my original point: work is not the problem, working a job you hate is, and that's understandable but don't get these concepts confused. You have to face the real issue here. Are there jobs available to you for what you want to do in your life? Are the companies hiring for this work generally prohibitive in their hiring practices? Why? How can they loosen restrictions on job openings so more people can do the work that they actually want to do?

I don't think an emphasis on “no work at all” is healthy, productive, or wise. The emphasis should be on freeing up, and loosening up, the job market, and automating the jobs people don't want to do. Those two things will have a profound change on how people live their lives.

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