The rise of AI is forcing us to confront our complicated relationship with effort and worth. But this reckoning was long overdue. Our attachment to suffering as a proxy for value has been undermining our work, well-being, and creativity for centuries.

a lot of the creativity anxiety is actually economic anxiety. It’s “I am worried that this thing is going to take my job and I will no longer be able to make a living.” I think that is a super valid anxiety that we need to be talking about more. I just wish it wasn’t couched in all of this sort of arts elitism stuff about how it’s not actually that... See more