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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9797823" data-attributes="member: 42856">Thank you for pointing out this link (and for allowing me to put a source on the quote).The question that remains is, "do we still have unfilled jobs to fill?". When we replaced our hunters-gatherer with peasants, it freed manpower to occupy jobs as shaman and soothsayers that we needed greatly. When we had enough of them and they invented a lot of new technology with their free time, we had a hard time turning enough peasants into craftsmen, until agricultural progress (and demographic increase) allowed for more peasants to turn into workers. With automation, we freed workers to work into a needed service industry (we could easily use more servants) without losing the manufactured goods. When we'll free people from doing service jobs, the question is "what will we make them do?" The answer can be "nothing", "jobs aptly described by David Graeber that are forbidden to name here by the anti-anthropology filter", or "a new wave of yet-to-be-invented useful purpose". All three have been explored in science-fiction.While the emergence of new needs has always worked so far and is certainly something that should assuage the fears of our time, it is not possible to rule out the other possibilities. I for one would very much like to live long enough to see humanity freed from the need to work.</blockquote>