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Isherwood  ·  2361 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Miya Tokumitsu: The Fight for Free Time

    they end up using it for unfulfilling things, don't value it.

This is what the new economy is being built around. Don't like shopping? Trunk club will send you clothes, blue apron will send you food, Amazon will send you products. Don't have time to wait for a fix it man? Amazon will do the scheduling and let them into your house. Hate your commute? Uber has you covered with autonomous vehicles.

It's the premise of the book the support economy. As automation takes over the service economy, humans will move into the support economy - offering to help those that can afford it achieve a greater level of self actualization by freeing them from their obligations towards unfulfilling actions.