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esafak • yesterday at 9:42 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Do you think all those professionals are going to be grateful to finally know the secrets of the universe despite being jobless?


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keeda • yesterday at 10:31 PM

By the time we know the secrets of the universe, the concept of "jobs" would be an ancient, vestigial footnote in our evolutionary history. I mean, if I knew the secret to faster-than-light travel I'd not be hunched over here pecking away at computers! ;-)

In fact, I suspect most of the "jobs" left eventually would be around extracting those secrets out of the universe and making them work for humanity. Which is probably a much better use of human intellect than pretty much anything we do today.

That may be the future we want to end up in, but we'll only get there eventually. Unfortunately, in today's world we neither know the secrets of the universe nor can we survive without jobs. So until society reorients itself towards that future, we are going to have a lot of upheaval.

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dyauspitr • yesterday at 10:30 PM

I think more than you imagine while understanding that it’ll be detrimental to their living.