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Life doesnt have to be this way (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Well, the hypothetical is essentially a post scarcity "economy", if there is zero demand for "work", then work would have to be uncoupled from livelihood in some way.

A crap outcome would be to meaninglessly keep toiling at work that we could automate because we are afraid of dealing with consequences of a big labor surplus.

However, this is a hypothetical, and even if it starts becoming a reality, it's going to be awkward when we can't meaningfully have "work" for everyone but we still need work for some people.

I will agree that the hard core antiwork folks that say today we could get by with everyone only doing what they wanted for fun are unrealistic. However it'll be... Interesting to see how we might navigate possibilities.