sure, AI will lead to job loss. but that alone is not a problem, we've survived job loss before. the problem is meaning loss. work was never just a way to feed yourself, it was and still is the answer to "what do i do with my day" for 90% of the population retirement depression is a thing and tells you what you should be preparing for. people spend 40 years fantasizing about freedom and then get it and fall apart within 18 months. because the job was the structure their identity was built on now multiply that by an entire generation, at the same time, with no cultural replacement ready we spent 10,000 years building civilization around the assumption that humans need to be useful. we're about to find out what happens when they don’t