James Talarico

And who knows what it's going to look like.

It's probably not going to be apocalypse and probably not going to be utopia.

It'll probably be something in the middle.

But it is going to change how we understand work.

It's gonna change how we understand our jobs and our careers.

It's gonna eliminate a lot of jobs, I would imagine.

And so this is now gonna be a spiritual question about what does it mean to be a human being?

It's one that we are not equipped to answer right now, because in a lot of ways we have thrown out the baby with the bathwater.

And because of the problems with organized religion that we talked about earlier, we've just jettisoned the whole thing.

So we're no longer having conversations about what it means to be a human being.

But to get to your question about what specifically this could look like,

You know, I'm intrigued by some of the pilot programs on universal basic income and what they've provided.

But I think what's missing in this idea is how do you provide people the support to go off and realize whatever dream has been festering in their brain for a long time?

Almost like entrepreneurial grants, right, of where we invest money.

in someone's next big idea for an industry, for art, whether it is community work or nonprofit work or solving a community problem.

My point is my life shows me that people are just, they have this creativity and this imagination that we are not tapping into.

And so much of that is trapped in people who are either in these meaningless jobs or are not or either gone to inadequate schools and therefore don't even get into a job where they could express themselves and give this gift.

But I do know that it's out there and that if we tap into it, it could be a game changer.

So I don't know what this looks like, but it does seem like the disruption that's coming could be an opportunity.

Again, back to out of crucifixion comes resurrection.