> I don't think the elite aristocrats in previous centuries had any problem with not working. Exactly. And they were not doing any kind of "art" either, for th

> I don't think the elite aristocrats in previous centuries had any problem with not working. Exactly. And they were not doing any kind of "art" either, for the most part. They went hunting. Sometimes they made war to one another (usually, only in spring and early summer, because the rest of the year, war was too inconvenient). They had intrigues (who slept with whom). I fail to see how work as it is currently understood, ie a 9-5 job, has any connection to any kind of "meaning". Life is already meaningless; but it's unpleasant. If we can make it more pleasant by having machines do the work, how is this bad?