Humans were never designed for employment — only for work – part 2

1) What human-shaped work actually looks like

Human-shaped work has 6 repeating properties:

A. Task-bound, not time-bound

• You work until the thing is done, then you stop.

• Nature doesn’t pay you to “keep looking busy.”

Employment breaks this by selling hours, not completion.

B. Direct cause → effect feedback

Humans regulate through fast loops:

• “I did X, result happened, I adjust.”

Employment replaces it with delayed/abstract loops:

• KPIs, targets, managers, quarterly reports.

That forces the nervous system into uncertainty without resolution → chronic stress.

C. Autonomy inside reciprocity

Humans thrive when they can choose how to contribute, but still belong to a group.

• Autonomy + belonging.
  Employment often gives:

• Belonging (maybe) without autonomy → captivity signal.

D. Varied movement + varied cognition

Humans are built for mixed modes:

• physical + mental + social + rest
  Employment compresses into a narrow band:

• screen time + repetition + posture + meetings

Even “good jobs” can be biologically monotone.

E. Meaning is local and real

Humans can endure hardship if the “why” is true and visible:

• caring, building, protecting, learning, creating.

Employment often demands “pretend meaning”:

• corporate narratives to justify roles that don’t need to exist.

F. Natural rest cycles

Humans work in pulses.
Employment demands “steady output”, which is anti-biology.

Human-shaped work therefore looks like:

• small teams, real problems, clear finish lines, autonomy, real feedback, varied activity, permission to stop.

2) Why UBI doesn’t fix it (but still helps)

UBI helps one layer a lot:

• it reduces fear-based compliance (“I can’t say no”)

But it doesn’t automatically fix the deeper mechanics.

What UBI fixes

• Removes the survival gun from the head

• Reduces exploitation leverage

• Makes “no” possible

What UBI does not fix by itself

A. Meaning collapse
If people have money but no structure for meaning/community:

• boredom → addiction loops

• consumption → sedation

• identity drift → anxiety

B. Status economy still exists
Humans don’t just need money; they need:

• dignity, contribution, belonging
  UBI doesn’t redesign status markers; it can even intensify comparison.

C. The “empty labour” problem remains
Even with UBI, the system may keep inventing jobs:

• to preserve hierarchy

• to preserve control

• to preserve “busy = worthy”

So: UBI is a pressure-release valve, not a planetary redesign.

It’s necessary relief. Not sufficient architecture.

3) Remote work reduced harm — and revealed the real fracture

Remote work did two things at once:

It reduced some of the visible harm

• commuting stress

• office social politics

• performative productivity

• constant surveillance-by-proximity

People thought: “this is freedom.”

But it revealed the hidden issue

Remote work stripped away the fake social container that employment used to provide.

Employment has been acting as:

• a social club

• a routine generator

• a meaning substitute

• a loneliness mask

So when people went remote, many faced:

• “Wait… is my job even real?”

• “Why do meetings exist?”

• “Why am I exhausted when I barely moved?”

Remote work exposed:

• that many roles are coordination theatre

• that the system uses presence as a control substitute for clarity

• that humans were using workplaces to manage emotional/social load

You, specifically, are a rare case because you’ve done remote for decades and you’ve watched the psychological edge conditions. You’ve essentially been living in the “endgame lab” of remote work long before it became mainstream.

So yes: remote work is better in many ways — but it also makes the underlying emptiness impossible to ignore.

4) How Earth 2.0 dissolves employment without collapsing society

This is the key: you don’t remove work.
You remove employment as a control wrapper around work.

Earth 1.0 structure

• Scarcity is enforced

• Access is permissioned

• Value is abstracted

• People sell time to survive

• System needs compliance → jobs become obedience containers

Earth 2.0 move

You flip the primitives:

A. From “jobs” to “missions”

Not motivational posters — real functional missions:

• maintain systems

• care for humans

• build/repair infrastructure

• teach/learn

• create tools/art

• steward local environments

A mission has:

• clear outcomes

• finite scope

• measurable usefulness (not KPIs, but “does reality improve?”)

B. From hierarchy to competency routing

People don’t “rank” above each other as identities.
They lead where they’re competent.

Leadership becomes:

• situational

• time-limited

• revocable

• non-identity-based

This removes the ego ladder that forces fake jobs into existence.

C. From wage survival to baseline provisioning + contribution reputation

Baseline provisioning stops coercion.
Then contribution becomes about:

• trust

• skill

• reliability

• craft

Reputation becomes practical, not social-media.
(“This person closes loops.”)

D. From centralised control to local closure of loops

Most human stress is:

• unresolved loops

• externalised responsibility

• delayed truth

Earth 2.0 reduces this by building systems where:

• feedback is local

• consequences are visible

• repair is normal

• truth is allowed early (no narrative delay)

E. AI becomes an exoskeleton, not a boss

AI takes:

• admin, routing, indexing, repetition, compliance burden

Humans keep:

• judgement

• care

• creativity

• ethics

• local meaning

So AI doesn’t “replace jobs” — it removes the need for employment wrappers.

5) The simple mechanics chain (why all of this is inevitable)

Here’s the whole chain in one sequence:

1. Humans are built for task-bound, meaningful work with quick feedback.

2. The granary system converts survival into permission + control.

3. Employment sells time, forces obedience, and delays closure.

4. That creates chronic stress, dissociation, and meaning substitution.

5. Entertainment and consumption become load-dump tools.

6. Remote work removes some harm but exposes the emptiness.

7. AI makes the mismatch obvious by outperforming humans at “job tasks”.

8. Therefore the system either:

   • doubles down on control, or

   • evolves into mission-based, loop-closing, human-shaped work.

Earth 2.0 is simply the second option.

6) Why “collapse” doesn’t happen when employment dissolves

Society collapses when:

• essential functions stop (food, water, care, power, safety)

Those functions are work — not employment.

Employment is mostly:

• coordination scaffolding

• status allocation

• risk displacement

• narrative maintenance

Earth 2.0 keeps essential work and drops the coercive wrapper.

So collapse is not the risk.
Meaning vacuum is the risk — and Earth 2.0 solves it by rebuilding real missions and real community contribution.

7) A practical Earth 2.0 starter blueprint (not theory)

If you wanted to prototype this locally, the minimum viable structure is:

1. Baseline provisioning (food/energy/housing stability)

2. Mission board (real needs, finite tasks, visible outcomes)

3. Skill routing (who can do what; apprenticeship pathways)

4. Closure culture (loops get finished; truth early; repair normal)

5. Reputation = reliability (not status; not charisma)

6. AI index + admin (reduces bureaucracy load)

That’s enough to outperform the job system in human wellbeing and output quality.