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Could This Be the Last Job? AI, Identity, and Anxiety

18 March 2026 · 87 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 136 blog views

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What if this might be the last job you have?

Found a article where a VC describes a dinner in SF.

The "serious" startup ideas were:

  • sex robots
  • sperm racing
  • orbital cremations
  • prediction markets on death

Why these? Because AI can’t replace them yet.

He shared a story - a startup he liked died in 48 hours. It wasn't from competition but a model update killed the entire market.

TAM = 0️⃣

The real question if jobs disappear… who are we?

Work isn’t just money. It’s identity.

Take that away and you get a civilization-scale identity crisis.

Keynes predicted we’d work 15 hours a week thanks to technology.

He was right about productivity but looks like he was wrong about humans. We filled the extra time with… more work. Now AI might force the question again.

When you realize you can choose many possible futures, your mind suddenly sees an infinite set of possibilities. Kierkegaard called anxiety "the dizziness of freedom".

Feels about right.

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