RESPONSE: Thank you for your comment.

I definitely wanted and still want Retsuko to move past her soul-sucking job.

Her billionaire boyfriend is right that she shouldn’t be there, but he wasn’t emotionally attentive to her needs. I think you can be intellectually right, and still emotionally wrong. The latter is really important for getting people to accept your policies.

I also agree that automation has the potential to free people up for more creative tasks, but that’s not an inevitability. I worry about automation talk that doesn’t address the riches potential to use it to expand their grasp on power. Tadano was utopian in his thinking, and I didn’t see him address the emotional reality that the selfishness of the rich will be a problem in dismantling the institution of work.

Thank you for your comment. I love Aggresuko.