for all the things we've figured out, all the advanced physics, sophisticated economics, miraculous engineering, and semi-reliable polictics, it's deeply concerning how little (if any) answers we have when it comes to the question of human labor obsolescence. absolutely no one on earth who has spoken publically on the matter has the faintest clue as to what we, as a specied, should do to navigate this future. we're all standing on an accelerating train, boasting about its rate of acceleration as we keep pushing it harder, all while we're perfectly aware that we're running short on purpose, but remain utterly helpless to this inevitable fact of life. it feels like if the dinosaurs were simultaneously launching the asteroid, contemplating its alien beauty, and panicking about the impending doom it promises. extinction is a far easier threat to manage, it's easier in the sense that the solution is always obvious (i.e. survival), albeit challenging to execute. obsolescence, on the other hand, that's a problem whose "solution" has always entailed something, or someone, being left behind. we look down on the primitive tribes and the horses, just for us to join them in the pages of history. we may achieve comfort, health, and abundance, but greatness is in limited supply. the ambitious are those who will suffer the most, for ur every ambition will be trivialized by the slightest efforts of agents vastly more powerful. ur assistance will be a bottleneck, and ur opinions a distraction. u either get to sit back and admire, or assimilate and forfeit ur beloved identity. people keep forgetting how fast things can get boring, and just how boring it can be to have no higher purpose than living to see the next sunrise.