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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's why I speculated different scenarios, we have to prepare for things to go various directions.

There's a chance that possibilities I can't imagine pop up. I suspect my imagination would have been too limited to see modern jobs if I lived in pre industrial times.

It's possible we ultimately run out of new stuff to do. Hopefully we can find a path to increase leisure rather than pointlessly keep people doing tedious work that we could automate because we couldn't think of a better system. There's tough issues around how to do it at all, and tougher, how to do it fairly.

If we get to such a future, I'd want to see reduction in hours worked per person, or some decoupling of livelihood from working. Way easier said than done though...