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This is our failure.

I got into tech in the 90s specifically to avoid the 9-5 dead-end job and ended up working mostly exactly that. But hey, we have billionaires now.

If we want a 30 hour workweek, we need to deliver it to everyone in the world with real tech. No more phantom tech distraction BS.

Solar. Permaculture. Robotic hydroponics. Real recycling. Personal digital assistants (and I don't mean tablet computers). Independent income streams beyond mining crypto and donating plasma. This stuff is so incredibly obvious but the entire weight of the global economy keeps us running the rat race instead of solving the real problems. Now work is just another form of escapism to distract us from stepping into our power and taking agency over our lives.

The ultimate expression of tech is the 0 hour workweek and self-actualization for the entire human race.




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