initially I felt the same: if one didn't have to work then all meaning to life would disappear, since most people's raison-d'être is to be useful to other peop

initially I felt the same: if one didn't have to work then all meaning to life would disappear, since most people's raison-d'être is to be useful to other people. Then I thought, actually we've already moved from hunter-gatherer to farmer to consumer, all our basic needs already cost us much less energy and time than they did thousands of years ago. And yet we all still work, it's just most of the work is made-up. All we need to do as the trend continues is invent more meaningful made-up work