I wish to begin by quoting the words of Socrates, who said that 'the unexamined life is not worth living.' I think this statement rings true in today's society. People are constantly talking about how they need to find themselves and live a more meaningful life, but no one ever takes the time to figure out what exactly makes their lives meaningful. This has caused an epidemic of people running around doing work they don't enjoy or spending money on things they don't need because it seems like material possessions will make them happy.
I think that one of the reasons for this is because our society places an incredible amount of pressure on people to succeed at their jobs and make money. I would say about 80% of a person's day is spent working in order to earn money, but there is absolutely no reason why this has to be so. Why can't we work only 10 hours a week instead and spend all the rest of our time doing what we want?
I think, in the future, if someone is not able to provide for themselves financially, they should be given a comfortable living by society. People who do work need not fret about whether or not their job is important and meaningful because 1) I believe that spending time on things you enjoy is good enough reason to have a job and 2) every person would be doing what they want.
Another reason for our obsession with money is because of the enormous amount of debt that people are constantly in. People think they need to own a car or go on vacations or buy new clothes all the time in order to be happy, when really these things don't make them happy at all. The average person spends $20000 on their education and tens of thousands more on rent and other expenses even before they start working.
I think that people should be able to live comfortably without requiring a huge amount of money. I would say that the average person's salary should probably be about $30,000 per year (my reasoning for this can be found in my other responses). If a person makes less than this, they will receive more social services and if they make more than this, their taxes will increase accordingly.
Reducing a person's taxes will not reduce the amount of money that is available to society. Society has an enormous surplus of wealth right now because there is a large number of people who are extremely wealthy and do not need as much money in order to be comfortable.
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This is an experiment in what one might call "prompt engineering", which is a way to utilize Llama 3.1 405b, a neural network trained by Meta.
Llama is a language model. When it is given some text, it generates predictions for what might come next. It is remarkably good at adapting to different contexts, as defined by a prompt (in this case, hidden), which sets the scene for what type of text will be generated.
Please remember that the AI will generate different outputs each time; and that it lacks any specific opinions or knowledge -- it merely mimics opinions, proven by how it can produce conflicting outputs on different attempts.
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