Larry Page sees a conundrum in the world’s future.
Machine learning will replace more and more human jobs, leading to vast unemployment in the next few decades, just like 19th-century farmers.
But today’s opiate of the masses is work. It makes people feel needed and occupied. People like vacation, but also like feeling busy. The trick, Page said, will be to convince people to simply work less so we can all have a little work.
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