https://tylercolbyre.com/tags/good-work/ Recent content in good work on TCR Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://tylercolbyre.com/writing/chatgpt-labor/ Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://tylercolbyre.com/writing/chatgpt-labor/ Abstract Critics of generative AI like ChatGPT claim that it will replace critical thinking, and nowhere does this risk appear more striking than at work. Yet the debate over AI’s effect on work focuses almost exclusively on AI’s capabilities - just how good is it at replicating human text? - rather than on who will eventually own this technology and to what use they will put it. Only by focusing on these latter questions can we understand ChatGPT’s likely effect on work and, more broadly, critical thinking. https://tylercolbyre.com/writing/kant-teach-labor/ Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://tylercolbyre.com/writing/kant-teach-labor/ Work is no longer working for us. Or, for most of us anyway. Citing lack of pay and promotion, more people are quitting their jobs now than at any time in the past 20 years. This is no surprise, considering that ‘real wages’ – the average hourly rate adjusted for inflation – for non-managers just three years ago was the same as it was in the early 1970s. At the same time, the increasing prominence of gig work has turned work from a steady ‘climb’ of the ladder into a precarious ‘hustle’.