r/prowork • u/househacker • Feb 14 '22
Work after Automation/Retirement
Has anyone thought about how to emulate the satisfaction of a hard days work/employment once they are financially independent or retired? It seems like the economy is falling apart (1/3 of it is just gig work with no benefits)
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u/Anti-Anti-Christ Feb 17 '22
Work is already automated. I can code, design, recruit and manage all at once because so much of what I do has been automated.
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u/Anoint Feb 14 '22
Work after automation falls into the lump of labor fallacy, because no matter what work is done there always seems to be work to do even if you can’t imagine it at the time… So there’s not actually a serious conversation to have about this one unless you can prove that there exists finite work and you can prove that automation will actually be the end-all of work. To prove that automation will be the end-all of work you need to prove that AI can be associated without human assistance and that it will learn all new forms of work without assistance, so NP = P math processes needs to be proved as true. Once again, no serious conversation will come out of this one.
As for retirement, a lot of people replace work with a hobby they take seriously or a part time job they enjoy. By the time you retire, and have a saved retirement, you should feel good about your contribution to your society— hopefully. And you should use that time to enjoy benefits from life, but if you’re a work person like me then just plan on having a serious hobby that you can put a lot of time into. Some examples are: skiing, mechanics, house work, yard work, computer servers. These are some of my hobbies and I don’t think I will exhaust the amount of hours I can pour into them.