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Cyborg or Virtual Utopia w/ John Danaher

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Is There a Crisis of Meaning in the Workplace?

In the book, you set up this notion that a post work future will be a good thing. Do you think it really will be an utopian outcome? Or do you think it could lead to boredomnd and chaos? I mean, some people love their jobs, but in the book you say, you know, you should really hate your job. And it's quite possible people have positive feelings towards the work that they do. What i argue instead is that work is structurally bad,. We've fallen into a pattern of employment that is bad for many workers - partly as a result of technology. So we should look to possible ways to transform, and possible even transcend, the need for work

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