Uncomfortable ideas that might be true: * a person may be happier working 8 hours for $100 than getting a $100 handout * some n% of people may be better suite

Uncomfortable ideas that might be true: * a person may be happier working 8 hours for $100 than getting a $100 handout * some n% of people may be better suited for repetitive work than creative work, and when these people are automated out of a job there will not be other repetitive jobs to go to * in the above proposition, n may be closer to 100% than we know * working in a hot and dangerous steel mill for $100 of wages may be preferable, in the long term, to washing floors for a rich person for $120 * the above proposition may be doubly or triply true for men * the above proposition may be additionally doubly or triply true for the subset of men most disposed towards violent conflict resolution * ethnically diverse societies may be at higher risk for societal breakdown than ethnically homogeneous societies * some jobs may be better than others at providing a person with a sense of identity and dignity, and this metric may not correlate with automatibility * some persons with anti-social tendencies may be “tamed” by the requirements of employment and may be less anti-social out of work hours * jobs may take time and energy away from self- and society-destructive behaviors — someone who has just done a long shift may be simply too tired to “raise hell” * individual choices with respect to work may not be utility maximizing for the society OR the individual over the long term — someone may say “yes” to the idea of collecting their wage without ever having to work again, but after 30 years of Netflix may be a less happy person for having done it