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In the preindustrial period, wealth creation was closely linked with human work, both physical and intellectual actively involving the hand-brain faculty. A synergic relationship should have been existed between creative work and good life, through the activity of wealth creation and wealth distribution. Work had created wealth that again distributed though work with a system of wages that benefited a lot of people directly or indirectly. The pivot of this system was based on the spirit of wealth distribution, not on wealth accumulation. Almost all those involved in, either as the receiver or the provider of work could have got a fair share, thereby, would have participated in the “creative work” either directly or indirectly. The profits and creative works were appreciated by providing the benefit to everyone in a family or in a society; thus, almost everyone else who had, involved in and connected with the system of work in the preindustrial world order, benefited. But today, wealth accumulation is what happens when the AI controlled systems surge. And instead of skilled workers, the working class of today are precariat part-time workers who live in a kind of precarious lives by not getting neither respect nor monetary wealth.
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Varghese, M. (2021). Creative Happiness Versus Power of Money. In: A Brief History of Creative Work and Plutonomy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9263-8_2
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