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Not having to labor is attractive to someone who has a solid foundation of accumulated wealth - at least a house with a garden in a first world country inherite
by oytis 4y ago
Not having to labor is attractive to someone who has a solid foundation of accumulated wealth - at least a house with a garden in a first world country inherited from parents.
For the rest of us skilled labor was (and still is for a while) a means to accumulate some wealth, get an own place to live, move to a different country we want to live in, get some things like travelling an hobbies that are not strictly necessary, but pleasant to have. If labor doesn't serve this purpose any more, it's unlikely that something else will, not in our lifetime at least
- fnordpiglet 4y agoIt’s a fair point - health care isn’t the only thing holding us in bondage. I’d note that I think humans will still work, but it’ll be more directed towards causes (we see this emerging as a generational demand now that work be meaningful) that talk to the human. I think, and now we are really ranging afield, that we already see as society’s move to post scarcity reproduction rates drop materially and some of these issues around “where to live” become less crushing. Additionally, as the need to be proximate to a human hamster wheel containment facility (office) we can utilize the broader infrastructure for our bag of mostly carbon water home and garden. I think the issue will be less about whether it’s possible or whether we won’t get what we want, but more about breaking down norms and inertia and biases and mental constraints and the need for accountants to keep us in hamster wheels for their moral view of the world.