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I think back to Calhoun's rat utopia experiments and wonder if humans could ever be happy in a post-work society. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how
by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
I think back to Calhoun's rat utopia experiments and wonder if humans could ever be happy in a post-work society.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-1960s-led-grim-predictions-humans-180954423/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-...
While the predictions made by the study regarding human behavior have since been called into question (and because a human version of these experiments would be horribly unethical), it does bear to think about what the world would look like if all work was performed by automated means free of human interaction.
On one hand, there are many jobs that would be seldom missed by most people. On the other, people can find fullfillment in just about anything.