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Monday Morning, Work: Here We Go Again
I've a new essay this morning in The Future of Work. Here's what it covers;
🚨 Widespread work dissatisfaction — Most people are disengaged from their jobs, working as a means to an end rather than finding meaning in it. Gallup data shows engagement falling to 21% globally.
🚨 Extrinsic factors destroy motivation — Even when people love their actual work, toxicworkplace dynamics (passive aggression, poor leadership, micro-aggressions) erode their wellbeing.
🚨 Technology pervasive influence — Tech now shapes cognition, identity, and daily life. Younger generations are technologically native yet risk cognitive deficiency; older generations struggle to adapt.
🚨Corporate interests drive AI development — The AIrace is about market dominance, not social benefit. Governments are losing regulatory power (e.g., EU watering down the AIAct). The "deploy first, fix later" approach carries unprecedented risk because even AI creators don't fully understand how these systems learn.
🚨Graeber's bullshitjobs thesis — Many jobs exist for moral and political reasons rather than genuine productivity. The system keeps people too busy to question their exploitation.
🚨AI as both threat and opportunity — Workers can either be displaced by AI or use it to escape meaningless work and take control of their own labour. The latter requires proactive learning.
🚨 Unpredictable exponential change — Unlike past technological shifts (e.g., aluminium kegs replacing coopers), AI's effects will be broad and systemic, not confined to single trades.
🚨 The meaning crisis — Work has shifted from vocational to transactional. People derive identity and worth from jobs, yet organisations treat them as expendable. Without meaningful work, the question becomes: what do people do? Chomsky said, satisfaction comes from doing useful, community-connected work. Modern workplaces have stripped this intrinsic value, prioritising profit over purpose.
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