{"id":302176,"date":"2025-09-01T12:01:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=302176"},"modified":"2025-08-31T12:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T11:59:20","slug":"unproductive-interpretation-of-work-and-employment-as-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/09\/unproductive-interpretation-of-work-and-employment-as-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Unproductive Interpretation of Work and Employment as Misinformation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unfruitful Interaction between Economic, Ecological and Psychosocial Perspectives<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Faced with polycrisis and forms of governance which are proving “unfit for purpose”, there is a case for a more radical assessment of what “work”, “employment” and “productivity” mean for those affected by those framings in their daily lives. There is great danger that reforms variously envisaged will tinker with conventional articulations — avoiding questions of relevance to the lived reality of many. Especially problematic is the potential inability of such tinkering to engage with ecological perspectives on the extent to which non-human species (and nature more generally) are engaged in gainful employment — forms of “work” and “productivity” on which humans are ultimately dependent, however much that is problematically denied.<\/p>\n

This exploration is triggered by a gathering to enhance productivity convened in Australia by the Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmes (Economic Reform Roundtable – A stronger, fairer and more productive economy<\/em><\/a>, Prime Minister of Australia<\/em>, 18 August 2025). Coincidentally a more general question has been asked by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace<\/a> in articulating the quest for a new global order in the form of “New Bretton Woods” <\/em> (Matthew Hamilton, Reform or Realignment? The Geopolitical Lessons of Bretton Woods<\/em><\/a>, 13 August 2025). It is questionable whether the perspectives presented address the experiential realities of people exposed to issues which are systematically ignored by such initiatives.<\/p>\n

In this exercise use was made of a number of AIs to glean insights systematically from the world’s resources on the multifaceted nature of the challenge. This included commentary on the arguments made for Bretton Woods reform. The AIs primarily employed for this purpose are Perplexity<\/a> and DeepSeek<\/a> — supplemented in the concluding argument by ChatGPT<\/a> and Claude<\/a>. In this experimental exploration the responses of AI have been framed as grayed areas — with that form of presentation itself treated as<\/strong> an experiment, in anticipation of the future implication of AI into research documents and debate. Clearly the questions can be asked of other AIs — and framed otherwise — whether at the present time or in the future when more sophisticated large language models become available.<\/p>\n

It might well be asked, for example, to what extent either the Australian roundtable or the Carnegie study sought to enhance their initiatives with insights gleaned from AI — otherwise recognized as both a primary tool for future increases in productivity and a challenge to conventional assumptions regarding “work”, “employment” and “productivity”.<\/p>\n

There are many references to aspects of the arguments highlighted here and th AIs offer facilities to list them in relation to the questions asked. Particular aspects have been explored separately — notably escaping economic disempowerment through enabling metaphors and software (12 Mindsets Ensuring Disappearance of Employment Opportunities<\/em><\/a>, 2012; In Quest of a Job vs Engendering Employment<\/em><\/a>, 2009; Sustainable Occupation beyond the “Economic” Rationale<\/em><\/a>, 1998; Re-enchantment of Work: engagement in the 21st Century<\/em><\/a>, 1996; Evaluating the Grossness of Gross Domestic Product<\/em><\/a>, 2016).<\/p>\n

TO CONTINUE READING Go to Original – laetusinpraesens.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Faced with polycrisis and forms of governance which are proving “unfit for purpose”, there is a case for a more radical assessment of what “work”, “employment” and “productivity” mean for those affected by those framings in their daily lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":132665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302229,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302176\/revisions\/302229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}