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by Xcelerate 3849 days ago
As great as this sounds (and I'm a full supporter of the idea), I don't think it's going to happen. Humans have what seems to be a somewhat innate desire to "work". If there aren't enough jobs, we'll just add eight more layers of management positions to fill the gaps. If an improvement in technology led to more free time, then we should already have vastly more of it than we did in the 1800s.
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Rumudiez 3849 days ago
And so we do. Two surveys placed mid-1800s average work weeks in manufacturing at close to 70 hours per week[1] with modern hours hovering around the common 40 hour work week, which is still actively being challenged[2].

1. https://eh.net/encyclopedia/hours-of-work-in-u-s-history/

2. http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/02/news/economy/sweden-6-hour-w...

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undersuit 3849 days ago
No one is proposing we stop people from working. Go ahead and be a farmer, you may not be efficient as the robofarmers, but that's OK you aren't going to have to sell the farm.
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