Automation will mark the end of our work-obsessed society
by David Frayne from Environment | The Guardian on (#14ZH5)
We live in a profoundly work-centred world; if automation is to benefit us we need to ask big critical questions about the purpose and value of our jobs
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At the beginning of The Lego Movie, we meet an average Joe called Emmet. When he's not working, Emmet spends most of his time sitting on the sofa, listening to the pop song Everything is Awesome (a sort of Lego-world equivalent of Happy by Pharrell Williams), absorbing adverts, and tuning in for a catchphrase comedy called Where Are My Pants?
Emmet showers, brushes his teeth and exercises at the exact same time every day, before hitting the same traffic jam, having the same empty conversation with his colleagues, and returning home to his best and only friend - a potted plant.
