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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9271824" data-attributes="member: 20564">This has been a common refrain since the 1800s.  So far, the doom and gloom that there will be nothing left to do hasn't happened.In SF, when humans no longer need to work, it's often called post-scarcity, and it considered closer to a utopia.Remember also that the work week used to be 6 days and longer hours per day.  And 40 hour work weeks were fought for with the assumption that there would be one person with their spouse not needing to work and taking care of family and house.  If automation did reduce available work, it's time to revisit that again.  Right now automation's benefits are kept by those at the top of the chain, needing to pay less workers for the same output.  If workers push, they can pay the same for the same output, it will just be the same number of workers doing less hours.</blockquote>