Qualitative Change in the Precariat as a Potential Consequence of Progressive Techno-Social Development

The purpose of this work: an attempt to formulate a new approach to understanding the precariat, which will ensure the development of this social class.Research methods: comparative-historical, analysis and synthesis, disclosure of dialectical contradictions.Research results. One of the problems of perception of relatively new social groups can be the consideration of their negative features that arose during the crisis accompanying the emergence of this social group. Such groups include the modern precariat: it is viewed negatively, in the context of the lack of social guarantees for the worker, permanent deskilling, loss of the meaning of life. One of the prerequisites for such perception is the contradiction between the image of an industrial worker who must perform a set of standard tasks, and the need for permanent professional development. A comparison was made of the precariat with other social groups, the process of emergence of which led to a significant decrease in the standard of living: the peasantry and the proletariat. It is shown that after overcoming the crisis of formation, these social classes ensure the reproduction of the population, partly culture. It is shown that in the conditions of automation of production and computer revolution, the desire of the worker to maintain the level of qualification is obviously a dead end, therefore the precariat arises as a sign of the crisis of the traditional industrial proletariat.A way out of this dead end can be the formation of a model consisting of four main elements: a) the problem of permanent deskilling is solved through the widespread introduction of artificial intelligence, which becomes an integral tool of the worker, b) the resources necessary to pay for this AI are provided by the state; this is an analogue of social security for the proletariat, c) representatives of the precariat are engaged in the organization of social and economic structures that are not yet automated; d) precariats perceive their life as a journey, and the meaning of life as eternal change.Perhaps, revealing the meaning of life of the precarious will require turning to the philosophy of postmodernism, as a tool for forming a worldview that is not associated with the rigid pleasantness of modernity.