As we know, it is only a matter of time before AI takes all of our jobs. Because nothing says human advancement like giving people more reason to feel like bigger piles of useless garbage than they already do. Since expressions of citizen participation in a thinking democracy peaked in the early aughts, as soon as Amazon perfects its drones’ ability to order from themselves, there will be nothing left to do but wonder why bother to keep existing at all.
Fortunately, AI won’t just take jobs we want but also jobs we don’t want. Like promoting the wonders of Germany, for instance, and having to travel around the country for it. The Bupkes knows this to be a fact because, in a pre-Germany lifetime ago, The Bupkes participated in an extracurricular business competition that assigned groups a mock consultancy gig to advise the German tourism board on promoting tourism in Germany.
Concluding this effort was futile, everyone promptly dropped out.
Some two decades later, the German tourism board …
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