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[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Well, if hypothetically all the work people don't intrinsically want to do can be done by robots with no self interest, fatigue, or capacity for sadness, pain, it resentment... Then we need a new system that doesn't require work to make a livelihood. Whether that's a realistic scenario... Probably not in the medium term future at least. But as a hypothetical, that could make for awesome living if we could get there without screwing it up (but we will).

As difficult getting to a reasonable end game under those ideal conditions, tougher question is what about if we still need people to do crap work, but like 5% of what we need today. Who gets stuck with that? To what extent in that scenario could you approach a 2 hour work week to have more people share that burden?

Frankly I'm pessimistic that we would navigate those to a better system, but if we could pull it off and such hypotheticals happen, it could be awesome.

this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
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