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I want a robot to do my job so I can have time to be at home with my family, travel, make more meaningful memories, and have the time and energy to fold my own

I want a robot to do my job so I can have time to be at home with my family, travel, make more meaningful memories, and have the time and energy to fold my own laundry. I am far more interested in automating the parts of the day that really enslave me so that I am free to spend my time exactly as I wish. I spend maybe 1hr a week folding laundry, tops, but I spend 40hrs a week at a desk doing something I am at best somewhat interested in but generally wishing I was at home/away doing things I enjoy with people I truly care about. The future I really care about is one where people don't have to spend nearly all their waking hours doing things they don't really care much about. If I could have a farming robot that could grow all my food for me in a self sustaining closed cycle, that would revolutionize my life. Add solar and decentralized sanitation/water and I really don't need much else. These are idealistic naive fantasies, but there is something to it. Technology has the potential to really free us well beyond folding clothes and washing dishes. And the task of folding clothes actually sounds more complex than growing food on a hobby farm.

IshKebab 9y ago
Yeah if a robot can do your job you aren't going to have a job at all for long.
- monkeynotes 9y ago
  I don't want the job, I want the output of the job. If I can have something else do the work and produce the output for me then I'll take that and spend my time doing things I care about.
  - IshKebab 9y ago
    Your boss wants the output of the job. If he can have something else do the work and produce the output for him then he'll take that and fire you. You will have no money.
    - monkeynotes 9y ago
      My 'job' could be working for myself. I could be my own boss farming my land. But that shit is hard labour and requires heaps of attention, knowledge, and early mornings. Right now it's easier for me to work for someone else, take a slice of my output (in currency) from my boss and then use that to buy the stuff I really need; food, energy, clothing, and so on. You see, if I can be self sufficient I don't need a job with a boss. My so-called job could be farming my land and I could use automation to make that basically trivial and escape the desk job that consumes nearly every waking hour of my adult life. This is just one simplistic way of looking at what I am talking about. My overall point is that having a vision of using automation to free up fractions of your workplace dominated day is missing a trick. We should be finding ways of freeing up that 8hr a day time-suck. Automating menial chores around the house is a distraction from the real goal.

IshKebab 9y ago

Yeah if a robot can do your job you aren't going to have a job at all for long.

monkeynotes 9y ago
I don't want the job, I want the output of the job. If I can have something else do the work and produce the output for me then I'll take that and spend my time doing things I care about.
- IshKebab 9y ago
  Your boss wants the output of the job. If he can have something else do the work and produce the output for him then he'll take that and fire you. You will have no money.
  - monkeynotes 9y ago
    My 'job' could be working for myself. I could be my own boss farming my land. But that shit is hard labour and requires heaps of attention, knowledge, and early mornings. Right now it's easier for me to work for someone else, take a slice of my output (in currency) from my boss and then use that to buy the stuff I really need; food, energy, clothing, and so on. You see, if I can be self sufficient I don't need a job with a boss. My so-called job could be farming my land and I could use automation to make that basically trivial and escape the desk job that consumes nearly every waking hour of my adult life. This is just one simplistic way of looking at what I am talking about. My overall point is that having a vision of using automation to free up fractions of your workplace dominated day is missing a trick. We should be finding ways of freeing up that 8hr a day time-suck. Automating menial chores around the house is a distraction from the real goal.