Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition

Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition

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The Death of the Social Contract

Subscribe now(Verse 1)There was a time we had a deal,You work hard, the country'd feelA duty to the folks who paved the way.From factory lines to nurses' floors,We built this land, we fought their wars—But now they treat our lives like they don’t pay.(Pre-Chorus)Grandma's counting pills and praying rent gets paid,While billionaires just float away in gold-stitched shades...Share(Chorus)This is the death of the social contract,Signed in sweat, to…

CHRONIC The advent of artificial intelligence leads us to rethink our relationship to work, stresses our columnist. But any automation has to be put in place for good reasons.I'm used to proposing concrete in this chronicle: methods, tools, feedback. But the shuffled news of artificial intelligence today brings us closer to raising the handlebar's head for a moment. Before we run after the next "new indispensable function", let's question the gr…