alt Hacker NewsThis is a great question. Thanks for asking it. It really got people talking.
My $0.02: Your value as a person never had anything to do with your value to the economy. It's time to relearn that fact.
Check out some of Tom Hodgkins books for more. Or maybe anxietyculture.com.
Replies
StefanBatory • today at 7:52 AM
But it is. My worth is based on what my value is, what I can do. What when I can no longer have any value on the job market?
➕ show 1 reply
achierius • today at 5:29 AM
Sorry, but most of us need to work to eat. This idea that our "value" is has nothing to do with the economy is an idea rooted in deep privilege, in the ability to say -- if I don't like my job, if I'm not employable, I can just retire, and the only problem will be figuring out how to live life afterwards.
Yeah but what is a persons value economically anymore? What skillsets will enable us to continue to make a decent living till we are old?