What Will People Do When AI Takes Over Jobs? The Wrong Question
What Will People Do When AI Takes Over Jobs? The Wrong Question “What are people going to do when AI takes over all the jobs?” This question is asked as if work, in its current form, were the ultimate purpose of human life. It assumes that long hours, repetitive tasks, and economic survival through employment are natural and permanent features of society. History tells us the opposite. A more relevant question would be: why are we still organizing society as if human labor scarcity were the goal, when technology has been reducing the need for it for centuries? Computers did not destroy humanity. They transformed it. AI is simply the next step in that same technological evolution. To pretend otherwise is to ignore the entire trajectory of human progress. Less Work Is Not a Threat — It Is Progress If technological advancement truly “steals jobs,” then logically, the solution is not to invent artificial work to keep people busy. The solution is to work less . Shorter working...
