(Not just literally “labor”, but even things like “this person typically makes the jokes, because they are better at making jokes; and this person typically says something empathic; and this person typically makes the decision when the others hesitate...”.)
Why would it be desirable to maintain this kind of ‘division of labor’ in an ideal future?
Why would it be desirable to maintain this kind of ‘division of labor’ in an ideal future?
Maybe it won’t, but it seems to me that people today build a lot of their interactions around that.
(For example, I read Astral Codex Ten, because Scott is much better at writing than me.)