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sixofravens-reads · 2 years

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Biting the Sun was definitely the right choice to read right now. I've been despairing lately over how AI are going to eventually take over my industry and my entire professional life will have been for naught and all my employable skills will become useless, so reading about a world where one person is depressed by the endless pointless "delights" of a "utopia" where humans not only aren't needed to work but aren't capable of much work because there's always a robot or a computer that does it better, and is seeking a meaningful existence where they are allowed to contribute to society, is really hitting home.

#also the concept that you pay not by money but by sobbing and prostrating yourself in gratefulness to essentially the government #and/or corporations is....oof #idk i just think it's important to the human Condition that we are all able to contribute somehow #obvs that means something different to each person and people shouldn't be forced into backbreaking work just to survive #but....a world where humans are not only expected to do Nothing but basically government-mandated to bc computers can do it better #is pretty dystopian #also this book is like the Uglies on acid it's fantastic #thinking about reading #biting the sun #tanith lee

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