While I think that work is an essential component to leading a fulfilling life, I think that jobs are not. Modern jobs are a concept that have been largely manu

While I think that work is an essential component to leading a fulfilling life, I think that jobs are not. Modern jobs are a concept that have been largely manufactured for society to enable people to function in that society. A lot of the complexity to our lives are products or byproducts of us all needing to obtain currency, thus get a job to do. One observation that I've had over the last few years is that in the United States we are very often defined by our jobs. The first question often asked when meeting someone is "What do you do?" which means "What is your job?" I don't know how true this is in other cultures. And we know that a lot of jobs are unnecessary. They represent something other than work that needs to be done: A personal connection, A government requirement, a misunderstanding of a need, a historical commonality, etc. When the AI revolution really takes off, like really takes off and all the problems resolve (not the murky middle which is full of some probably really awful stuff), I think we'll go back to what we do when we're children: Play. Hobbies, games, exploration. The hard work becomes a sort of leisure activity where the pursuit is accomplishing it, in spite of its challenge. Gardening (for instance) is just farming where you're not growing food to survive - the success in gardening is growing what you want where you want. I enjoy baking and I continue to do it even though I can buy most goods at a store. Likewise, I think even if a robot could do the job in my home, I'd still do it because I enjoy it. I don't think it'd be any less fulfilling.