> but it is not at all clear that it needs to be always the same guy grinding, while next door someone else is dying of boredom and watching netflix until he passes out
Unemployment is 3.5%
Unemployment is 3.5%
I have met quite some and zero who were happy with it.
Because our society requires us to do SOMETHING so we make up large social structures to prove we have the right to exist.
A lot of people theorize about what's gonna happen if/when we reach very high levels of automation. Who's gonna consume things after the robots take most jobs? UBI is often the answer. I'm pro-UBI, but I'm also of the opinion that we should prepare/self-correct by collectively working much much less.
Or we can change our definition of what work is. There is work and there are (money paying) jobs.
The world is full of problems and full of work. Problems on the planet, problems on the mind, problems on the hearts.
And the universe is big and waiting, so I am really not afraid, that robots will steal me a purpose in life.