The title may startle you! We are used to homilies about work as worship. Very soon though, such vacant phrases may truly be empty of any meaning, of any relevance, of any significance, and in very near future.
Forget the tech giants such as Messers Musk-n-Gates, even the progenitor, that is, the Dad of the AI, Hinton himself, is predicting that the AI is already so galloping that very soon, there would be no work at all for human beings! Neither hard, nor smart!
The gig economy is sure and fast giving way to the no jobs economy. No, this is not the h(e)aven Marx envisioned at the purely poetic end of his great 'Manifesto'. Mind you, the Linked In types may assure you that alternative job markets would emerge. That is not true either. Chat bots, and AI agents, would soon be better masters of 'prompt'ing, at communicating faultlessly, and, however, tough the terrain could be.
No professions are immune from the invasion, whether creative or tough, in brief, neither teaching, nor writing, why, not even surgery! The likes of the Nvidia's, the techno-financial giants of the world are uniting to pour zillions in to the ever guzzling gullets of the industry for making the AI efficient n better by the day, whatever be the effects enviornment-wise either! No Lehmann-Sachs kind of bubble this seems to be to burst either!
Mind you, as an entity, as a concept, work is a complex politico-economic-socio-psychological phenomenon. If there is no work, no wages either, right? Sure, the government (it would then indeed be truly big brotherly!) might help out with welfare measures.
But how much and to how many? And how long? How to grade the quality of either any profession or the work carried out, if there is no work at all for human beings? And, mind you, all along, the machines would be getting smarter and brighter! Some brave new world!
Forget the finance dominated/determined issues about the functioning of the market driven economy! Well, much worse socio-psychological issues are at stake! Work is never mere efficiency, money, schedule, et al. Work is purpose, too.
If there is no such motive, what would empty minds do, but be devil's workshop?!? Can there be any family of such (hopefully, metaphorically) blood suckers? Remember, during the COVID, when everybody had to be cooped up within the four walls, the oh-so-lovin family got in to each other's hairs, plural intended!
Imagine the society of such dracula's and zombies, as if we do not have enough of these already! All the vulnerables, be it babies, the elderly, the women, the disabled would be at the receiving end! And, oh, ya, all the castes, ethnicities, religions would face the same fate. Class, anyways, would not exist, except the three or four conglomerates owned by two or three capitalist buddies!
Yes, this dystopia is for real. So the solution? Bond deeply and truly with those who you genuinely care for! When you are with those you love, any hell can be THE heaven!
Pratima@ Wonder what would be the future of our demagaugic, eh, demographic dividend, gutka guzzling, et al, ready for every harassment of any innocent if somebody throws at them a few rupees in return!?!
Word of the day: It is a phrase, actually. Cassandra cries. 'Cassandra cries' refers to genuine prognosis to which none pays any attention. The "nach kaschit shrunoti maam" frustration of Sage Ved Vyasa! Cassandra was a prophetess who could foretell the future exactly, to the 't'. Why, she had even warned about the Trojan horse in the 'Iliad'. None believed her, though!
Quote of the day: "Quality is great," says Henry Ford, if one goes on "doing it right even when no one is looking."
Let us (continue to) learn grammar: As times are gonna be tough, let us so 'dress ourselves' that we may 'help ourselves' to feel better! If the object of the verb is different, the meaning changes. Notice the difference between "The mother bathed the baby" and "he washed himself", or even "bathed himself", hopefully, at least sometimes!
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