> Perhaps European writers envisioned a future where the life of the upper classes was available to everyone - a life of leisure, a utopia without work. Perhap

> Perhaps European writers envisioned a future where the life of the upper classes was available to everyone - a life of leisure, a utopia without work. Perhaps? I'm not aware of many European writers who categorically only wrote books like that. And there are plenty of US writers who wrote about future societies about a life of leisure and a utopia without work. Most of the science fiction I've read isn't even particularly about jobs or work. Characters having work to do is often only tangential to what they're trying to accomplish - who would listen to Elijah Bailey and why would he bother doing what he was doing if he wasn't a detective? > Whereas the American's envisioned a future in which there was always work because there was an ever expanding frontier (space) that needed conquering. Europe conquered much of the known world before the US was even a thing. WW2 was started by the country I'm from because we felt like we had to conquer all of Europe. Meanwhile Japan was in the middle of conquering much of Asia, brutally.