Why should they? I like my work even though I don't like working. I think it's depressing to think that a technologically utopian humanity would insist on work

Why should they? I like my work even though I don't like working. I think it's depressing to think that a technologically utopian humanity would insist on work as a requirement to live. From a public policy standpoint, paying people to essentially stay at home and be passive consumers can be quite beneficial. They aren't supporting themselves through crime and they're placated to the degree that they won't want to protest the establishment. And if they want anything more out of life than the basics, they'll have to work for it. Living on welfare alone (even if it's nationally guaranteed) doesn't sound like attractive mate material to me. Exception: could result in poorly handled out of wedlock births. Possible mitigation by increasing benefits to incentivize birth control?