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LinkPizza posted...

And you can only do a hobby so much before it becomes boring, as well.

Then get more hobbies. You say work offers variety? Then vary up your personal life as well. There's no reason why you need to rely on work to do that.

Shit, if I didn't have to work I could easily go 500 years without getting bored.

LinkPizza posted...

Because people are greedy.

Greed doesn't factor into it. You can't be "greedy" when everything is, essentially, produced for free. You can have everything you want and that still won't impede anyone else for getting the same thing.

Even if money sticks around, it will swiftly become meaningless because robots exist and have an upkeep-to-labour ratio that rounds down to zero.

LinkPizza posted...

Especially because so things humans do better than robots. Like writ stories, and make games. And nobody would want to do that for no reason.

Well, first of all, the deluge of free stories and games available online *right now* kind of highlights the lie in this assertion. More to the point, you're talking about a fully automated world - in a fully automated world, robots will be able to make games and write stories as good or better than humans can.

Robots can already produce art and write stories and write programs. They can't do it as well as humans can *yet*, but they will improve and get there eventually.

LinkPizza posted...

the transition time between that and no is going to be hell for the people that aren't making money that still need it

This is what I highlighted before and you dismissed - the transition time is the rough part; the end result is not something to be feared.

And we can manage the transition through things like UBI, but that needs to have more political will put behind it for it to be effective.

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