What happens when AI makes most human work economically unnecessary? Clara Collier argues that a post-work future may be less liberating than it sounds: if jobs stop giving us status, independence and a way to earn respect through what we do, we may fall back on older, more relational social structures built around family, reputation, conformity and who we know. A fascinating argument that work may be doing far more to sustain liberal individualism than we realise.
00:00 - Introduction
02:31 - Power and sex among apes
10:40 - Ladies who lunch
18:07 - The working classes
26:44 - Friendship was invented in 18th-century Scotland
