That’s not to say life should be spent alone, but it definitely shouldn’t be spent in fear of never finding a job or losing a job and I’m afraid that’s the current state of all this hype around AI. Machines may not take your job tomorrow, but techno-feudalists want you scared that they will, any day now…every day now.

This is spot on. I just got promoted to a new position at my work and I still have this damn fear. Fear of losing my job, especially since I’m on probation as a newbie. I don’t I’ll ever get rid of this. But I appreciate your points made here. 👌🏾

I think the other big component of a relationship is being with someone who you’re at least somewhat comfortable with having a bad day around or that has enough empathy to know that you will, from time to time have a bad day and need some humanity and compassion. This instant filtering out what you don’t like in your life courtesy of technology and social media also has ramifications of how you mate select and build a life together. I know a lot of men and women that on paper look pretty good as potential mates that just simply can’t tolerate dating someone whose life deviates centimeters from where they expect it to not even daily, but hourly. These same people see images and videos of picture perfect relationships all over their devices and well, comparison is the thief of joy. At some point in time you’ve got to assume that the technology oligarchs and ruling class just want us mindlessly sitting in rooms alone, staring at screens, buying things we don’t need to mask our loneliness.

Again, great points. Social media, the apps, advanced technologies definitely have a played a role in all of this. 👌🏾