[iamsohungry]

Bob Black's essay, The Abolition of Work gives an alternative dichotomy to the "work versus idleness" dichotomy: work versus play. You can be paid for playing if your play produces value (and many forms of play do produce value).

[coldtea]

Pursue a career you like and feels like play (DJing, skating, liberal arts, photography, music) and you wont have to work a day in your life (because nobody's hiring).

[iamsohungry]

I realize you're joking, but in the context of this discussion, this shouldn't be mistaken for a valid point. We're talking about how to structure a society, and I think it makes sense to structure society in a way that allows people to play, maybe not all the time, but more and more as technology reduces the need to work. Continuing to push the idea that work is a value in itself as work provides less and less value is going to be a bigger and bigger problem as the need for work decreases.