[appreciatorBus]

Who picks up the garbage, who works all day in the solar panel factory, and works in the fields while you are making art?

Ofc it's possible for our world to be much better than today for all of us, but it's also possible for it to be much, much worse.

[44520297]

You are writing in the comments section of a website devoted to the discussion of companies and technologies that have changed the entire world. Technologies that, many suppose, will change the entire nature of labor, specifically.

And yet you ask, "but how will we maintain the world as it is today?"

Invent a better tomorrow. That's what you're here for.

[9x39]

We could call the better tomorrow a great leap forward.

I jest, but smartphones and web apps have not changed that people need ever-more food, clothing, housing, energy on an ongoing basis while the brave new world is being designed and implemented.

[throaway955]

no, its better to complain that people don't want to work anymore.

I wonder what all these "hackers" tradespersons relatives thought of them in 1999. Probably that they were useless computer geeks who would never amount to anything, because they hate "work."