> The real question isn't when AGI will arrive or how we'll implement UBI. It's how long we can maintain the beautiful fiction that keeps society functioning.
I don't know what the author's experience is, but based on actual research about people's work satisfaction, and particularly David Graeber's work written up in Bullshit Jobs [0], most of these jobs have been psychologically bad for people, who know that what they do most of their waking hours has no (or even negative) utility to society.
Utility to society doesnt always account for the survival of society
now we need a web framework with faster reload times