Jameela Jamil
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Podcast Appearances
making us as unhappy as possible, so we'll buy as much as possible.
And I know that that's a really big swing to take, but I don't really give a shit because I think I'm right.
We did have lots of warnings, though.
We were warned like two or three years ago that 100 million jobs would go within five years.
And then we kept on using it to write our work emails and be our therapists.
And now, of course, we've seen all the underwhelming... We just ruin everything good, don't we?
Isn't it extraordinary the human capacity to just destroy everything?
It's going to be really scary when, you know, especially in a country like the United States of America, people's entire identity has been tied to their work.
Often, you know, I don't know if this is outside of California, but wherever I go, the first thing I'm asked is always, what do I do?
It's supposed to be such a defining part of culture.
And so when you take that away from people, you just pull the rug from under their feet.
They haven't developed their hobbies.
They haven't had time to develop their hobbies.
They don't know where they want to go.
You know, there was a whole period of thousands of years in which we didn't have a place to clock in and clock out.
We had personalities and identities and passions.
And so I think the other side of that might be really beautiful.
But in the meantime, there's going to be a huge mental health crisis where...