When I started reading this post (and honestly, I haven't finished reading it), I began to think about jobs, and that ideal human world that's written about. Th

When I started reading this post (and honestly, I haven't finished reading it), I began to think about jobs, and that ideal human world that's written about. The one where people don't have jobs, robots do all the work; and most of us just play and tinker and all of our lives' necessities are taken care of. Along the path to that place, I wonder if there was a period where there honestly weren't enough jobs for people to fill. Mass unemployment just because, honestly, there really wasn't a need for those employees. The entire world functioned and provided enough food WITHOUT those workers. Is it possible that, at least in the first world, we're beginning to approach that place? (Honestly, probably not. I have arguments regarding greed and the 40 hour work week and underpaid employees and managers that don't know how to schedule their workers, and businesses that don't believe everyone in the business deserves a percentage (however small) of the net income of that company, rather than a flat, functionally minimum, wage) Or, at least, that a rise in unemployment rates and an honest difficult of finding jobs due to robots/etc IS the beginning of that 'fewer jobs, more playtime, fewer NEEDED jobs' world, where humans act more like otters than ants?