"We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated out of work. We should be excited by that. But the reason we're not excited by it is because we live in a society where if you don't have a job, you are left to die. And that is, at its core, our problem."

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Plus, she's brave enough to try to speak through the massive Stockhom Syndrome wherein it is believed without WORK for works' sake (not for the sheer joy of it or contributing in a meaningful way) we have no purpose, no standing, no validity as living beings. Over the millennia we have come collectively to not question the outrageousness of having to EARN the right to live, rather than rejoice in our aliveness together and make this lovely planet a utopia.