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New Social Contract Needed
Let’s Learn From The Past Instead Of Reliving It
When the Industrial Revolution hit, “work” was redefined, but it was also largely to the benefit of the owners and at the expense of the workers. With the advent of A.I. and techno-feudalism rearing its head, poised to reinvent capitalism, we are again staring down the barrel of a massive societal shift.
astutely points out in his piece A.I. and the End of Work that many jobs that were once thought “indispensable” are increasingly being fulfilled by A.I. at least as effectively and cheaper on labor costs.
But what does this mean for workers?
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Social contract is a term from the “Age of Enlightenment”, primarily from thinkers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke, referring to the unspoken, unwritten tacit agreement of civilizations by which they’re organized, and with the way consciousness is simultaneously both evolving and devolving, we desperately need to revisit this subject.
Instead of pretending like the “right to bear arms” still pertains to muskets, and the 14th amendment “abolished” slavery rather than reinventing it, we need to be radically honest with ourselves and each other.
