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If all your needs are met, what is there to be upset about? If you're upset about something, obviously all your needs aren't being met yet.

• marginalia_nu 4y ago
  Who said anything about anyone being upset? I asked for clarification about a statement about work being infinite.
• ben_w 4y ago
  Iain M Banks wrote a series if books in a universe where super-advanced friendly sentient AI could do all the things. That Culture was a complete utopia from the author's perspective — all their serious drama had to come from their interactions with various outsiders. Yet there are people here in the real world who find it horrifying. Those fictional AI would out-class humans by about the degree to which a human would outclass a blade of grass; even if you tone that down a bit and we're just pets rather than plants in comparison, I can see how people may feel that this detracts from their sense of self-worth.
  • jstanley 4y ago
    If your sense of self-worth is suffering, all your needs aren't being met.
    • ben_w 4y ago
      Not what I meant — if it was that easy? Well, I'm sure someone will make a BDSMDomBot soon enough regardless of if that gives anyone at all a sense of self-worth.
      • jstanley 4y ago
        I mean, having a sense of self-worth is a need! I think you're taking "all your needs" more narrowly than necessary. Being fed and sheltered for free isn't sufficient to provide for all of a person's needs.
        • ben_w 4y ago
          Ah! Now I understand. And I agree with you.