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371: ‘The Skin of Your Pants’, With Daniel Jalkut

The Talk Show With John Gruber

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The Purpose of Life

I'm deeply concerned for humanity when people don't have a sense of purpose. I think this is where the movements towards things like four hour, not four hour, four day work week are reasonable. But also let more careers evolve that fill the needs of people who have the privilege of not needing to buy bare necessities. Let people make art and sell it, make more people write novels and sell them. Or give them away. Right? Because you don't have to sell them because if we get to the some sort of state generation or two from now with advanced robots and AI that you don't need people doing X, Y and Z,. We don't need to pay people to drive trucks

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