Purpose beyond paid work
Ways for people to keep the status, structure and purpose that jobs provide when AI does much of the work.
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Facts
- Lane
- Interfaces and society
- Wave
- 9 of 12 (build order, not a date)
- Needs
- 0 boxes all the way back through hard links
- Unlocks
- 0 boxes downstream through hard links
- Leverage
- None
- Cluster
- Trust plumbing and the agent economy
Evidence as of October 2026
Losing a job harms wellbeing beyond income, even after re-employment, and most lottery winners keep working; over 80% of people rate both income and purpose as important, and the authors call purely material support necessary but insufficient.
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Nothing beyond the detail list. It can start at any time.
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