Sure Maharashtra Formation Day matters a lot. In the enthusiasm, however, most all seem to have forgotten that May 1 is May Day, alias International Labour Day, too!
Personally I would have liked it a lot if there were many and meaningful debates about the nature of work right now. Due to the Corona scare, most all are blinded to the fact that subtly but very surely and rapidly, the very nature of work is changing drastically, what with Revolution 5.1, or whichever way we may choose to nominate it.
We are already in the metaverse, we are already cyborgs, we are already being defined by the AI, and what have you. These, and other such strides of technology, we possibly cannot control or contain. They have already started defining our very selves radically.
In such magical yet mysterious contexts, there is an urgent need of a re-look at the very notion of work. It is absolutely not hard work any longer. It is no longer mere smart work either. It is neither soft skills support.
Work soon is going to be more and more scarce as machines would do a lot of intellectual work, too. 'Pink slip' is gonna be the best buddy soon. Constant up-skilling would be the new mantra that, too, may not help.
No, I am not a pessimistic crybaby. Yet I do feel there is an urgent need to re-look at these issues, think through these existential dilemmas. How I wish such, such would have been the debates, too, on the International Labour Day.
Pratima@how to worship work now?
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