Work gives everyone a purpose. The man who works with swords, he does not "work as a blacksmith" he IS a blacksmith. Waking up at 7am everyday to drive for 1 hour, work for 9, and drive 1 hour back home (11 hours total) might be soul-sucking, but isn't it the work that you are doing that truly makes it all worth?
Question Jow Forums: >is a post-scarcity society possible and desirable?
Within the next 2 decades, AI robots are going to take over many jobs and with so many people becoming unemployed, the government will either be forced to pay out a Universal Basic Income or the will have to make up some kind of job that AI cannot accomplish (PROTIP: By that time, there will be very few tasks an AI can't do better) With this kind of production perfection, we can increased efficiency of food and energy creation processes greatly. We will be able to sustain the world's population and many people will not need to work. But is this truly what we want? Immortality technologies will be released around this time, and the population will boom from not only new births but old boomers deciding to hang around for a couple centuries more. We truly have social problems to think about regarding the impact of automation, but no politician is saying a damn thing.
tl;dr machines are more dangerous than mexican immigrants
As someone who works on six axis robots and the automated systems they operate within, I can tell you that you are dead wrong. I could automate most wageslave jobs given a week to work on them, with current technology. Its only a question of cost effectiveness and public image at this point.
