"Also, isn't it a good thing if labor becomes less valuable, implying that less labor is REQUIRED? That is what people aim for when they invent technology to ma

"Also, isn't it a good thing if labor becomes less valuable, implying that less labor is REQUIRED? That is what people aim for when they invent technology to make life easier, after all." I used to think this. I came to the conclusion that families and familial lines, like individual people, are living organisms. Some of those living organisms (familial lines) are relatively young and inexperienced - and they will not gain that experience within one family members' lifetime. It will take multiple generations of growth and nurturing to "grow up" to produce individuals, like you, who can operate in a more complicated society and transact more abstracted work products for more abstracted rewards. In the meantime, as in all of history, members of juvenile family lines need meaningful, satisfying labor that they can transact for reasonable currency to thrive as a living organism. Asking why we need any labor to be done is like asking why all those infants can't just get with the program and eat solid foods already.