[cuban leaf]

When I was a kid in the mid-60’s I would wonder what people would do for a living when robots did everything, even building and maintaining the robots.

I figured out at around the turn of the century that THIS kind of stuff is what we would do. Basically, most of what people do for money is pointless and irrelevant, but at least they are doing SOMETHING to earn their pay. And the only people doing anything with real purpose are the self employed.

This is ignoring the spiritual implications, of course.

[ClearCase_guy]

Although it would not be appealing to everyone, I'd like to see society embrace small farms and homesteading. We do have quite a bit of land which is not being used. If someone had 3 acres and a cow, they would have a good amount of satisfying work to generate food for their family, they could be (somewhat) self sufficient. And -- because it's a "hot topic" lately -- if there were some sort of guaranteed national income, people could could get some support to buy goods (such as a tractor) that they couldn't grow, build or barter for on the local level.

The Amish might be on the right path if we find our society had much less need for workers. Work is a good thing. Paper shuffling in a cubicle is one kind of work (but it's pointless). A bit of farming for your family is another kind of work (and much less pointless).

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***When I was a kid in the mid-60’s***

My 1962 teachers said the future work week would be 35 hours or less so all people jobs.

I found there is not enough money working straight time. In the last 31 years of my work life I only missed two days of overtime.

My dad always said a man could get by on straight time, but he could live well on OVERTIME!
He was correct, but he didn’t take his own advice and moved to a low agricultural starvation wage area of the USA.

[PeterPrinciple]

most of what people do for money is pointless and irrelevant,

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I remember a story from WWII, wish I could find it again. IN a prisoner of war camp the prisoners were forced to move the rubble from a bombed building to a pile at point A. After that they were forced to move the pile of rubble to point B but during this process half of them died because there was no point.

Most of what we do today is moving rubble...............