This identifies the danger in treating “no work” as merely an economic condition rather than a cognitive one.
A society can survive material abundance without labor only if it replaces the neurobiological functions of work: salience, agency, temporal structure, and earned meaning. Without those, UBI risks becoming a sedative rather than a foundation.
The question is do we truly understand what work was doing to the human nervous system before we started removing it? If not, the subsequent failure may be attentional drift, identity collapse, and susceptibility to capture by whatever new system or tech offers as a “synthetic” purpose next.
Brilliant case study linking Kuwait to automation futures. The deskilling observaton really hits when kids cant tie shoes becuase maids always do it. I've noticed similiar patterns in tech teams where over-reliance on automation tools gradually erodes foundational problem-solving abilities. The key differnce is robots wont organize or demand better treatment like human workers eventually do.
This identifies the danger in treating “no work” as merely an economic condition rather than a cognitive one.
A society can survive material abundance without labor only if it replaces the neurobiological functions of work: salience, agency, temporal structure, and earned meaning. Without those, UBI risks becoming a sedative rather than a foundation.
The question is do we truly understand what work was doing to the human nervous system before we started removing it? If not, the subsequent failure may be attentional drift, identity collapse, and susceptibility to capture by whatever new system or tech offers as a “synthetic” purpose next.
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Brilliant case study linking Kuwait to automation futures. The deskilling observaton really hits when kids cant tie shoes becuase maids always do it. I've noticed similiar patterns in tech teams where over-reliance on automation tools gradually erodes foundational problem-solving abilities. The key differnce is robots wont organize or demand better treatment like human workers eventually do.