{"id":16545,"date":"2026-10-09T05:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T05:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squeelio.com\/?p=16545"},"modified":"2026-10-09T11:05:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:05:05","slug":"ai-takes-your-job-you-keep-the-existential-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/squeelio.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/ai-takes-your-job-you-keep-the-existential-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Takes Your Job. You Keep the Existential Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Artificial intelligence promises to free us from work. Capitalism would prefer us to buy our freedom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For centuries, the arrangement was straightforward. Most people worked, a smaller number owned what they worked on, and the owners of wealth explained that this was the natural order of things.<\/p>\n<p>You worked in a field or a factory. You grew something, carried something or made something. Independent thought was welcome provided it did not interfere with the production schedule or suggest that you should own the factory. That would be the plague of Socialism. Even worse Communism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Exterminate.<\/p>\n<p>But we progressed. We evolved. We sent more people to offices, gave them passwords and paid them to think. We even gave them an education and sold them the illusion of being educated, even if most of the degrees and diplomas they got were not really education but pointless years spent on pointless learning to be paid for as a lifetime debt. Media studies, mon cul \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Workers did mind jobs: they assessed risk, managed accounts, devised strategies and attended \u00a0crucial meetings with a new phenomenon : the boardroom with the boardroom table and boardroom chair.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0A8A5F79-6392-4782-9DE0-3211E669D9D9-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0A8A5F79-6392-4782-9DE0-3211E669D9D9-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0A8A5F79-6392-4782-9DE0-3211E669D9D9-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0A8A5F79-6392-4782-9DE0-3211E669D9D9-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0A8A5F79-6392-4782-9DE0-3211E669D9D9-696x464.png 696w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0A8A5F79-6392-4782-9DE0-3211E669D9D9-1068x712.png 1068w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0A8A5F79-6392-4782-9DE0-3211E669D9D9.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eventually, we the people collectively realised that we could do all this from home. \u00a0 But was this really progress? Humanity had travelled from the plough to the spreadsheet without fundamentally disturbing the ownership arrangements. Or leaving home. It was all in the head. Dead heads, bread heads, work heads \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Workers were still busy making money for the owners of the wealth. The setting had improved. The bargain remained familiar.Your time, my profit, and in return you get to consume my products, my services, my entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Employees received salaries and became consumers with barely enough money to cover the rent and food they needed to survives. They bought the goods and services that other employees were paid to produce. Money circulated, profits accumulated, and the people doing the work were periodically reminded to be grateful for the opportunity, expected to go gently into that good night.<\/p>\n<p>No, I don\u2019t want to turn this into a wild rant about the super rich sailing around \u00a0the world in their superyacht while the rest of us live half lives in their shadow. The argument was made and lost a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>The world is unequal: get over it.<\/p>\n<p>You have to hand it to them though. They are smart.Now the owners of the wealth \u00a0have discovered something better than a person who works with their hands or their head.<\/p>\n<p>Something that does both without asking for a share. Yes, no surprise here: AI<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTo be is to do.\u201d \u2014 Socrates<br \/>\n\u201cTo do is to be.\u201d \u2014 Jean-Paul Sartre<br \/>\n\u201cDo be do be do.\u201d \u2014 Frank Sinatra<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The attraction of artificial intelligence is easy to understand. If a system can perform a task more cheaply than an employee, the employee becomes a cost that can be removed from the process of making money, an unnecessary overhead. This is called efficiency. If the employee objects, it is called resistance to change. And as we know \u00a0resistance is \u00a0futile.<\/p>\n<p>Get over it, get on with your life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16559\" src=\"https:\/\/www.squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3D7EB788-91EE-4B79-8062-C1201C538DC6-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3D7EB788-91EE-4B79-8062-C1201C538DC6-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3D7EB788-91EE-4B79-8062-C1201C538DC6-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3D7EB788-91EE-4B79-8062-C1201C538DC6-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3D7EB788-91EE-4B79-8062-C1201C538DC6-696x464.png 696w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3D7EB788-91EE-4B79-8062-C1201C538DC6-1068x712.png 1068w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3D7EB788-91EE-4B79-8062-C1201C538DC6.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We should be balanced and fair. And not bite the hand that feeds us. AI will create new jobs. Some people will become more productive. Explainers will be employed explaining why the people who lost their jobs should become more productive.<\/p>\n<p>But suppose this AI technology eventually delivers on its grandest promises.We the people are redundant. We don\u2019t even need to educate ourselves anymore. Big savings there \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We would then arrive at a remarkable achievement: an economy capable of producing almost everything while requiring almost nobody to do anything productive or even think about doing anything other than to consume entertainment \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this almost nobody character still needs an income.<\/p>\n<p>This is the small design flaw in the magnificent future being presented to us. Workers are expensive, but customers are essential. Often, inconveniently, they are the same people.<\/p>\n<p>Every company would like to reduce its wage bill while preserving everyone else\u2019s wage bill. It wants its own workers replaced by AI \u00a0and its customers \u00a0still comfortably employed.<\/p>\n<p>Taken together, these ambitions amount to a plan in which everybody dismisses the people who buy everybody\u2019s products. It\u2019s hard to get your head around, isn\u2019t it? We collectively as species make ourselves redundant and wonder why we are all broke and dispirited.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the eventual solution will be to give people money so they can continue buying things from the people who own the machines. We call this universal basic income, although \u201cpublic subsidy for the continued existence of customers\u201d has a certain explanatory elegance.And the problem with universal income is that if everyone has the same money to spend then there is no differentiation of products.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We just end up spending money on the same old shit and consumerism just becomes the same old drudgery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The few would own the productive world. The many would receive an allowance to remain economically present within it.<\/p>\n<p>A more radical question would be why the machinery capable of freeing humanity should belong to a minority entitled to charge everyone else for that freedom.<\/p>\n<p>If generations of human knowledge, public research and collective experience help make these systems possible, perhaps their benefits should be shared through ownership, rather than distributed as an act of generosity after the profits have been collected.<\/p>\n<p>They may even be a time when even thinking such thoughts will be banned, let alone committing them to social media.<\/p>\n<p>Yet even that would solve only half the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that the material question has been answered. You have a home, food, healthcare and enough money to live. Nobody needs you to report for work on Monday. Nobody needs your professional judgement. The system runs quite happily without your contribution.<\/p>\n<p>What, exactly, are we now? What have we become, collectively, as a species, on our little rock in an infinite galaxy?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16561\" src=\"https:\/\/www.squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5364D558-A4C4-474C-BDB5-3518EE605A1A-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5364D558-A4C4-474C-BDB5-3518EE605A1A-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5364D558-A4C4-474C-BDB5-3518EE605A1A-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5364D558-A4C4-474C-BDB5-3518EE605A1A-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5364D558-A4C4-474C-BDB5-3518EE605A1A-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5364D558-A4C4-474C-BDB5-3518EE605A1A-696x392.png 696w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5364D558-A4C4-474C-BDB5-3518EE605A1A-1068x601.png 1068w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5364D558-A4C4-474C-BDB5-3518EE605A1A.png 1672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For generations, we have answered that question by describing our employment. I am a manager. I am an accountant. I am a builder. We defined our identity by what we do to earn money \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Japan, they go even further. I am Mr Matsumoto \u00a0and I work for Mitsubishi.Identity is surrogated both to what you do and who you work for<\/p>\n<p>We have become so accustomed to this that \u201cWhat do you do?\u201d passes for an enquiry into someone\u2019s identity. Tell the questioner that you spend your days walking, reading and thinking deep thoughts (or what passes for deep thoughts ), and they may repeat the question more slowly.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, but what do you actually do?<\/p>\n<p>Employment has provided more than wages. It has supplied an explanation for your very existence. Your time is occupied, your role is recognisable, and your existence has been approved by an organisation with a payroll.<\/p>\n<p>Even the job you hated protected you from a certain kind of uncertainty. Catullus captured the contradiction in his brief poem Odi et amo: \u201cI hate and I love.\u201d Asked why, he could offer no explanation; he simply felt it happening and suffered the torment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16565\" src=\"https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Between-the-Desk-and-the-Unknown-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Between-the-Desk-and-the-Unknown-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Between-the-Desk-and-the-Unknown-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Between-the-Desk-and-the-Unknown-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Between-the-Desk-and-the-Unknown-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Between-the-Desk-and-the-Unknown-696x392.png 696w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Between-the-Desk-and-the-Unknown-1068x601.png 1068w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Between-the-Desk-and-the-Unknown.png 1672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Employment has its own version of that divided attachment. You hated the job, yet needed the structure, the salary and the reassuring impression that somebody required your presence. You wanted to escape, but feared becoming unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>AI may resolve the contradiction by removing the job. The torment, being less expensive to maintain, stays with you.<\/p>\n<p>You knew where to be at nine o\u2019clock. You knew what counted as a successful day. You could postpone questions about the meaning of your life until retirement, by which point you hoped to be sufficiently tired to avoid them.<\/p>\n<p>AI threatens to bring the appointment forward.<\/p>\n<p>This is the existential dilemma: we may gain freedom from compulsory work and discover that we have forgotten how to choose a life.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no shortage of suggested replacements. Entertainment will occupy us. Platforms will recommend what to watch, where to go and what to desire. An AI companion may even help us discover our authentic selves using preferences inferred from our purchasing history.<\/p>\n<p>You could spend an entire lifetime being expertly assisted without ever deciding what that lifetime should be for.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FB19EA68-A93C-4235-AB45-2201DE7EF9DA-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FB19EA68-A93C-4235-AB45-2201DE7EF9DA-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FB19EA68-A93C-4235-AB45-2201DE7EF9DA-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FB19EA68-A93C-4235-AB45-2201DE7EF9DA-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FB19EA68-A93C-4235-AB45-2201DE7EF9DA-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FB19EA68-A93C-4235-AB45-2201DE7EF9DA-696x392.png 696w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FB19EA68-A93C-4235-AB45-2201DE7EF9DA-1068x601.png 1068w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FB19EA68-A93C-4235-AB45-2201DE7EF9DA.png 1672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The existentialists become uncomfortable company here. Sartre\u2019s emphasis on choice means freedom does not arrive with an instruction manual. Remove the role imposed upon you and you still have to act, choose and take responsibility. You cannot expect an employer\u2014or an algorithm\u2014to settle the question of who you are.<\/p>\n<p>Camus gives us Sisyphus, condemned to push his rock uphill forever. Our future introduces a peculiar revision: a machine has been installed to push the rock.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sisyphus is free to leave but he chooses to stay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The punishment had become his occupation. Now even the punishment has been automated.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16566\" src=\"https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Machines-Wealth-and-the-Freedom-to-Choose-1-1024x409.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Machines-Wealth-and-the-Freedom-to-Choose-1-1024x409.png 1024w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Machines-Wealth-and-the-Freedom-to-Choose-1-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Machines-Wealth-and-the-Freedom-to-Choose-1-768x307.png 768w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Machines-Wealth-and-the-Freedom-to-Choose-1-1536x614.png 1536w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Machines-Wealth-and-the-Freedom-to-Choose-1-696x278.png 696w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Machines-Wealth-and-the-Freedom-to-Choose-1-1068x427.png 1068w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Machines-Wealth-and-the-Freedom-to-Choose-1-1920x768.png 1920w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Machines-Wealth-and-the-Freedom-to-Choose-1.png 1983w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But abolishing the necessity of labour does not automatically supply the experience of meaning.<\/p>\n<p>A person can be comfortable, entertained and utterly lost. comfortably numb as the \u00a0Pink Floyd \u00a0put it<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s not all doom and gloom, pessimism and misery. Upwards and onwards once more onto the beach. The future could be so bright that we are all gonna need shades and over the next century or two, human life will turn increasingly towards being: experiencing the world, caring for others, making things without needing to sell them, developing interests without converting them into identity defining careers.<\/p>\n<p>There is something almost Buddhist in the possibility of loosening our attachment to status and allowing a moment to be valuable without demanding that it produce anything.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, somebody will attempt to sell us a subscription for this.<\/p>\n<p>But being will require more courage than the slogan suggests. We will have to face the possibility that there is no external authority keeping score, no promotion that proves we have lived correctly, and no final appraisal confirming that our existence met expectations.<\/p>\n<p>We will have to give shape to lives that no longer come preloaded \u00a0with expectations<\/p>\n<p>We will have to disengage from the process. It\u2019s not about reprogramming, de programming, rewiring. It\u2019s about disengagement.<\/p>\n<p>The political struggle will no doubt concern who owns the machines and who receives their wealth. The existential struggle will concern what we do with the freedom that wealth could make possible.<\/p>\n<p>Both questions are too important to leave to the owners.<\/p>\n<p>We built machines to spare us labour. Now we have technology to spare us the need to sync or make decisions independently. \u00a0We may soon have to build a society that lets us survive the achievement\u2014and learn to live meaningful \u00a0lives without needing work to tell us why we matter.<\/p>\n<p>Work and the very concept of work is going the way of the dinosaur. It\u2019s the end of \u00a0the Kali Yuga. Lord Shiva, the destroyer and the creator both is coming in the guise \u00a0of AI. \u00a0Your services are no longer required. Your existence is now your problem. But your future self \u00a0knows that already.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16567\" src=\"https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Shivas-Cosmic-Dawn-Beyond-the-Office-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Shivas-Cosmic-Dawn-Beyond-the-Office-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Shivas-Cosmic-Dawn-Beyond-the-Office-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Shivas-Cosmic-Dawn-Beyond-the-Office-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Shivas-Cosmic-Dawn-Beyond-the-Office-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Shivas-Cosmic-Dawn-Beyond-the-Office-696x392.png 696w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Shivas-Cosmic-Dawn-Beyond-the-Office-1068x601.png 1068w, https:\/\/squeelio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Shivas-Cosmic-Dawn-Beyond-the-Office.png 1672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Artificial intelligence promises to free us from work. 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