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> What will all the people be doing in the future when all the work is done by machines?

There will be a lot of poor people with no income. That is not a recipe for a good ending.

You can use that line of reasoning for anything, like prostitution, hitmen, drug-dealers.. Work is not necessary for surviving really, we are just used to it for some centuries

Of itself, automated production is not a recipe. It is just a factor of production. Society could be organised a number of different ways, post-automation, just as it has been organised in various ways since the end of slavery (in some geographies and forms).

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