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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Or we need to develop technology that does work formerly done by people, ...
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The downside of "robotising" society is that humans don't lend themselves well to sitting around letting others do the work. I have watched too many people retire from their jobs expecting to enjoy 20 or more years of retirement doing anything but work, only to come running back to a job of some sort because too much play starts to drive them crazy. I've also seen relatively young people retire from jobs with enough money for decades of life only to die, quite literally, within months of leaving their jobs. Before technology can take over large parts of life, we have to find a way to keep those millions of robot replaced workers employed doing something else.
Human's crave productivity. It's why there is an almost universal disdain for the sluggard.