“I think we've really got to get past this idea of jobs are really important. No, no, that's not true. Meaning is really important to a human. Having a purpose is really important. I think it's really good for your soul to have a craft that you can work at.”
Motley Fool Money · October 2026
Closing a discussion of AI and automation displacing whole professions, Page said that his own industry is "as right in the crossfire as any other." He called the upheaval tragic but argued that people will find other things to do.
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I reckon if the lawyers I know are anything to go by, that joke is just going to go around that sector like light speed, right?
That's, by the way, if you can't laugh at yourself, yeah, have a look at yourself. All right. We're going to laugh at ourselves in the finance bros.
Well, it's again, it's not to make, it's not to make light of the demise of industries and the upheaval of the workforce. It's really not. But it's also, you've got to acknowledge that there's always growing pains in life, you know, and from a civilizational growing perspective. Pain. And again, and I would say if I was going to say, I would say it, even if it was I who was being impacted by 100%, am I going to be impacted? Like our industry is as right in the crossfire as any other that is out there. So it's not like I'm looking from an outsider here, but these are good things. These are good things. Humans will definitely find other things to do. And I think we've really got to get past this idea of jobs are really important. No, no, that's not true. Meaning is really important to a human. Having a purpose is really important. I think it's really good for your soul to have a craft that you can work at, you know? Andrew Page lot of things that were sort of eternal are going to become very antiquated very, very soon. And it's sad, it's…
not far off, mate. Yeah. And particularly, we're not, it's not only the distribution, but we're doing it over a video conferencing piece of software that didn't exist any meaningful way until 2020. I mean, Zoom, Zoom was, I mean, Skype was kind of a weird thing. And it was kind of around in a bit…
Skype was the one, right? I know.
So MotleyFool's always been remote, as you know, mate. When you were with us, that's literally the Yanks used to use AIM, which was the AOL instant messenger. And AOL never really took off here. So we used Skype for years, years and years. And not only for video, but for messaging. There was no…
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