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You Have Been Deskilled!
As we look at the calendar it’s worth taking a deep breath and acknowledging how far we’ve come in our shared journey. Things are moving so fast, and if you’ve been following this series or just need a quick reorientation, remember: We’re not talking about the apocalypse or some doom-and-gloom terminator-style robot takeover. This is about the hero’s journey, firmly in what Joseph Campbell would call the call to adventure. The ordinary world, that place where you had a nine-to-five, staring at spreadsheets all day and coming home exhausted is dissolving behind us. We’re stepping into something new, navigating a forest we’ve never been in before, and it really helps to have a map or at least a compass. That’s precisely what dropped just four days ago: On January 15, Anthropic released their latest Economic Index report. This isn’t just another dry stack of spreadsheets or some consultant’s guess about what might happen in 2030, it’s different, a signal flare fired from right where we stand in January 2026. This is Part 5 in our series, “You Have 5000 Days: How To Navigate The End Of Work As We Know It,” a straightforward guide through the Abundance Interregnum that transitional period of roughly 13.7 years until work as we know it decouples from survival, leading to a world of greater plenitude. We’re all in this together, facing the changes with a mix of boldness and understanding for the challenges ahead.

Read the article: https://readmultiplex.com/2026/01/20/you-have-5000-days-navigating-the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-part-5-your-deskilling/

As the golden hues of a January sunset bathe the verdant landscapes of Southern California, on this poignant evening, just five days after the world bid farewell to a satirical giant, some called The Internet Dad lovingly, we gather once more in the crucible of transformation. The neural networks of artificial intelligence hum with inexorable momentum, etching new paradigms into the fabric of human destiny, outpacing even the boldest visions of futurists past. This is the fourth odyssey in our monumental chronicle, “You Have 5000 Days,” a visionary testament to the ticking clock: roughly 13.7 years until the Age of Abundance crystallizes, forever sundering the primordial link between toil and sustenance. Yet this passage is no tranquil voyage; it is the Abundance Interregnum, a stormy interlude of upheaval and rebirth, bridging the crumbling citadels of scarcity-forged labor and the radiant horizons of automated opulence.
In this Interregnum, global markets spasm, psyches unravel under the weight of obsolescence, and civilizations hover between collapse and ascension. Here, reframing transcends mere technique it becomes an existential mandate, a psychological bulwark for the multitudes, transmuting collective despair into sovereign empowerment. For in the Abundance Interregnum, as jobs dissolve into algorithmic ether, the mastery of one’s mental narrative will delineate the survivors from the subsumed.

Link to story: https://readmultiplex.com/2026/01/19/you-have-5000-days-navigating-the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-part-4-reframing-the-dawn-of-abundance/

In part 3 of this series we illuminate a new path, we turn to timeless literature that has long anticipated these crossroads. In this installment, we spotlight Kurt Vonnegut’s debut novel, Player Piano (1952.) {https://amzn.to/4pqcJuM}, a prescient dystopian tale that mirrors our impending reality with uncanny precision. Drawing from Vonnegut’s own experiences in the early days of industrial automation, the book serves as a cautionary blueprint for the next 5000 days—roughly 13.7 years, propelling us into the late 2030s. We’ll dissect its plot, themes, and characters in depth, reflect on its eerie parallels to today’s AI surge, and examine how it has (or hasn’t) leaped from page to screen. Through this lens, we confront the existential upheavals ahead, urging a proactive navigation of a world where work’s end could either liberate or alienate us.

Link: https://readmultiplex.com/2026/01/01/you-have-5000-days-navigating-the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-part-3-the-player-piano/

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We are rapidly accelerating technological change, where artificial intelligence and robotics are poised to redefine the very fabric of human existence, we continue our exploration from Part 1 https://readmultiplex.com/2025/12/24/you-have-5000-days-how-to-navigate-the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-part-1/. There, we delved into the promise of boundless abundance amid the fading necessity of traditional labor, framing this shift as humanity’s collective Hero’s Journey, a narrative of disruption, introspection, and potential rebirth. As jobs transition from obligations to options, the question looms: What happens to our sense of purpose when machines take the wheel?
Building on that foundation, Part 2 plunged into the Ordeal’s depths, adapting Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – to the bereavement of career eclipse. Kubler-Ross’s life, from her birth as a triplet in 1926 Zurich, defying patriarchal constraints to volunteer in post-WWII refugee camps, emigrating to the US, and pioneering seminars humanizing dying patients, illuminated a model forged in mortality’s shadows. Her 1969 bestseller On Death and Dying introduced the stages from over 200 interviews, challenging death as medical failure and birthing hospice. Later works like Death: The Final Stage of Growth and On Grief and Grieving expanded to broader losses. Applied to automation’s tide, denial manifested as dismissal of AI’s reach, like workers minimizing hype; frantic upskilling, often futile like 1920s lamplighters training for electrics; depression as eroded self-worth, with unemployment studies showing 40% clinical symptoms; and acceptance as pivots to passions, unlocking renaissance.

Link: https://readmultiplex.com/2026/01/01/you-have-5000-days-navigating-the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-part-3-the-player-piano/