Stained to perfection

A 996 AI job in the Silicon Valley. A slow life on a farm, tending to goats. What explains the rise of these polar opposite attitudes towards work? Are these the only models we can imagine?

It is a still life. In the foreground, oriental lilies emerge from the neck of a plastic Sanpellegrino water bottle, filled slightly more than halfway. There are reasons to believe that it is a vase, repurposed in the same way that restaurants use empty wine bottles as decor. The water looks flat. Condensation on the inside, rather than the outside, of …