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I think I've said it before, but it's worth saying again.

I find it depressing, how most of us are coerced into working unfulfilling, dumb jobs and waste our talents - or not even discovering them in the first place because they are too busy slaving their lives away.

And yet, people doing said dumb jobs like garbage disposal, cleaning, security - aren't making enough to cover basic needs and in turn have to look elsewhere for job or become a "working poor".

There was a polish poet, I always forget his name. He used to ride the trans-Siberian railway and saw dozens of exhausted miners, too tired to even move.
He wrote something like "I wonder how many of these working men could have been brilliant musicians, poets, painters and inventors if they weren't too poor to even try".

We're creating an AI to replace our creativity as humanity, so we can do dumb labour without distractions on a boiling planet - one of a kind in the entirety of known space - a true paradise in the void - destroyed for the profits and comfort of the few.

It's just heartbreaking and depressing to think about. Such a waste all around.

How do I cope with that?