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Are you by any chance born to rich parents in a western country?

Because most people in the world are working around the clock to supply food and shelter for their family. It's a bit unclear still how you are going to consolidate the two facts

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GP was talking about how humans would spend their time after the "real work" is done, as if the only purpose of humanity is productivity or consumption.

The assumption is that there will be time left. But as it is the 'real work' takes up only 8 hours per day because the resulting pay is significant. But if that pay evaporates suddenly the real work will balloon to take up most of your waking hours.

We are referring to people in the context of "going into quantitative finance, vibecoding sports-betting apps, consuming AI-generated TikTok shorts, and arguing with political bots on Twitter.".

Those are hardly the "most people in the world are working around the clock to supply food and shelter for their family"

It's a bit unclear still how you are going to consolidate the two facts.

The article is satirical and hyperbolic, while the reply above is concrete in its suggestion

That is the future. Gambling would be the way that Ai can distribute money; only random odds can win against it.

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