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buddypalamigo19 t1_j0chlvf wrote

Reply to comment by Transsensory_Boy in A society with intelligent, autonomous machines just ain’t the same society no more by Current_Side_4024

The notion that one should link their purpose or sense of self worth to a number in a bank account going up has always been repugnant to me, and I've never gotten along well with people who see life through that lense. There’s always mutual scorn and lack of respect going on. I suspect there's some kind of fundamental incompatibility at the first principles layer of our respective worldviews.

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Cajbaj t1_j0czd7t wrote

I had a coworker who died recently and a lot of "well wishes" notes from upper management talked about how he was great with our sponsors and an efficient tester and I just thought... This is real to those people in the suits. The grind, the bank account, they really thought it mattered, that is real life to them. My coworker liked weird gadgets, dinosaurs, his children, not securing a deal with a manufacturing company. Even just typing it out makes me hurt.

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buddypalamigo19 t1_j0daif5 wrote

That's absolutely disgusting. Far better if they had simply said nothing at all.

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0913856742 t1_j0dibux wrote

I hear you bud. The profit motive separates us from who we want to be from who we have to be, simply for the privilege of existing. Really sucks the joy out of the human experience.

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