AI Is Not a Labor Crisis. It Is a Meaning Crisis.⁠↗

Meaning is not some luxury layer on top of life. It is the critical input. It is the cost of our greatest gift: imagination. Because we can imagine futures, we cannot live without a reason to inhabit one.

The problem with AI is that it is the nail in the coffin to the industrial meaning narrative that works today.. either AI tells people they can stop striving and still receive abundance, which is not a meaningful life; or it tells them the ladder is gone and their striving no longer matters, which is even worse.… either way is bad:

Creation only creates meaning when it is a unique expression of the individual (and usually when it is appreciated by more than just that individual alone) — prompting tools along with everyone else will give no meaning to people / misses the point of what creative meaning is.

PEOPLE NEED GOALS / TO BELIEVE IN THEIR FUTURE … not just the future in some abstract way… but their personal future.