Derek Thompson

And I was like, there are a lot of jobs in our world, like adjacent, not really journalism, but like friends of ours and whatever.

Yeah.

the college-educated professional class, that are pretty unfulfilling, actually.

And I think that those are the jobs that whoever the sad person is that's making Marc Andreessen's PowerPoint decks, they're getting paid a lot, but their job is very unfulfilling.

And it feels like AI is coming for those jobs

And if the, you know, Jevons paradox is correct, and that would mean in theory that some of those people could maybe go find other more fulfilling work that we haven't thought about.

That's the most positive spin I've had on AI recently.

A Stanford grad, probably.

He's probably got somebody that went to Stanford doing that job.

He's saying, I don't want to deal with annoying people.

No, having to deal with people that annoy you is a pretty important element of the human experience.

You know, it just is what it is.

Or especially if it's having to deal with people that on balance that you like, but annoy you occasionally.

You know, if you completely excise that from your life, you're going to have a pretty, pretty lonely retirement period, I would imagine.

And maybe even before that.

This relates to the happiness question.

There's kind of these two intersecting issues.

I'm trying to decide which one I want to talk to you about.

You mentioned the happiness thing, so let's talk about that.

I was fascinated by a recent podcast you did where happiness is down basically since the pandemic everywhere a little bit, but in the Anglosphere, a ton.