1. It's good that such boring, backbreaking labor is being automated away.
2. It's bad that we're still in the middle ages when it comes to this thing where if you don't slave yourself enough to something, you starve because no money.
2. It's bad that we're still in the middle ages when it comes to this thing where if you don't slave yourself enough to something, you starve because no money.
If robots took over all the jobs that nobody wants to do and people only did the things they loved whether its sitting on their arse or becoming doctors we might just evolve as a civilization to the next level. I think this is also key to becoming a monetary-less society.
Obviously the trick and hard part will be to still get people interested and motivated to become doctors and engineers,etc ..
I personally love what I do as an engineer and could see myself doing even more engineering tasks if resources wasn't a constraint.
Personally I love problem solving and could not handle sitting on my arse all day long, and I don't think I'm one bit unique in this mentality.
Will it happen ? I doubt any time within the next century if ever.
However, I think to evolve as humanity we need to change the system we have today. Currently its more beneficial to hide information than to share it because of monetary gains.
No one really wants to sit on their ass all day, that's just something that's made up by rich people to stress us out so we continue working like dogs for them instead of on our real projects.
If you sat me down in front of the TV with no responsibilities forever everything provided I probably wouldn't last three days.
Somehow I don't think that m-f 40+ hour work week is the most relevant thing about our live once we die.Yet its the most time consuming part of it.
Wouldn't you prefer to be free to work for things that you think are valuable... not in your free time, y'know, the time that should be for yourself and the things you love?
What's up with all these weird open source folk, working hard to create value and giving it away for free, uplifting for all? I hear this linux thing is pretty cool. It's almost like we can capture productivity in code and then copy it endlessly for practically free and everyone benefits. How are these people motivated?!
Maybe we should pursue this cooperation thing... who am I kidding. It fails every. single. time.! Right?
You seem to be justifing the concentration of capital and power in a few hands in order to 'motivate' the rest of the population.
Sweden is doing fine. Australia is doing fine. Those two countries are generally in the top 5 of any quality-of-life measure you care to name. The UK is mostly doing fine.
Socialism is not communism.
Granted, no one really does anything without considering the possibility of that thing causing them to go six feet under, but you've stated that the only motivation to do anything ever, to decrease the local entropy around yourself even one bit, is under the threat of death.
Are you not aware how unhealthy, conformist, tool-like of a life-philosophy this is?
(Also, you don't need to exactly buy into all this startup cult shit and work your ass off from the beginning, just do anything that makes you more money than you put in. I know this is obvious but judging from most people like you, you need that dose of reality)
You probably have a different definition of need than I do. Want != need.