Why do we work?  What happens if we don’t?  Who told us to work? 

 If sustenance and survival weren’t prerequisites. Would we still work?  or go back to the native order of the land? Is work something we do to give ourselves a notion of purpose or is it something for us to just continue making some money?

One of the most important questions we get asked regularly as a kid growing up is, “what do you want to become when you grow up?” and most kids say, “an astronaut, a fireman… a policeman…a chefffff!!” … or a unicornnnn! It seems like the most matter-of-fact thing in the world. Whatever floats their boat, sets sails to their dreams.

Zero out of all the existing kids in the world, will hardly mention that their dream when they grow up is to be unemployed.

Humor me, and for a few minutes, let’s try and take away from it the stigma and stains we have so abruptly associated with it for so long. Being unemployed doesn’t have to look like homelessness. A PR overhaul about the status is long overdue.

Being unemployed doesn’t have to make you look like a street urchin. Unwashed, uncombed and unholy. The visuals need an upgrade and a massive reboot into making it look like it’s something cool. Its attainment should be a fad that all young people want to follow. Possibly.

Many of us, if not ALL of us, strive to be of great use to society in our own unique way. The search for our larger sense of purpose in the world begins to come into play from when we are about 5 yrs old.

This whole idea of under glorifying unemployment seemed like a whimsical, mystical and fantastical idea until Ai showed up. Ever since tech companies have begun cutting their workforce, I’m waiting to hear about how they are going to ‘Make unemployment cool again.”

Everyone is talking about the problem of entry level jobs being cut but there isn’t enough talk about the solution. What are the alternatives? Do the hesitant young people of tomorrow just gather beneath a tree, and sing kumbaya? Which will depend on whether there are any more trees left on the planet in 20 years.

Let me not get sidetracked and wander into another doomsday topic like climate change and just stick to the AI doomsday bubble. (a sentence I never thought I would say)

We don’t know how hot or cold the planet will be, all we know is that unemployment is going to be at an all-time high.

Another option is, UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME. The idea that everyone gets a certian amount from the governtment for, well… just existing. Im oversimplifying it, but you get my drift.

Concurring from the fact that no one is inherently evil, companies or brands want the best for consumers but want better for themselves. You can’t blame them, they don’t know any better, this has just always been how it works. The policies they create are always profit-oriented, and morality is slightly fickle at the top.

SO the wealth gap will grow wider. Coming from a species that once used seashells as a mode of monetary exchange, we have now come full circle. An economic ouroboros, eating its own tail in a self-fulfilling prophecy. The things we create begin to destroy us. Pushing us to evolve beyond that very thing we created. Simple human capacities will be novelty and this will allow us to replicate more possibilities, more triumphs, more failures. More avenues for growth and more pages filled with regret.