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by jayfuerstenberg
4583 days ago
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Boredom is a powerful motivator too. A couple months of laying around doing nothing will drive most people crazy and they'll begin asking themselves what they want their life to be about. And even if they don't contribute anything, should all people be required to useful to others or can't some just choose to be left alone if they are self sufficient? In a world of scarcity I can see the argument of forcing people to contribute if they want to take back but what about a world of abundance? You and I are breathing abundant air, for free, and nobody is getting angry right? What if other resources like electricity were as abundant as Tesla once dreamed? I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. These are just thoughts worth consideration. |
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>A couple months of laying around doing nothing will drive most people crazy
I think on HN we frequently assume that "most people" are like us, but HN is such an unrepresentative sample of the world that this is dangerous, especially here. You and I and other knowledge workers would probably get bored and want to do something useful to find purpose. But there are many people today who work at unskilled jobs because they have to put food on the table. They don't derive their sense of purpose from it. It's very difficult to predict what these people would do if they suddenly had no financial necessity to work. There are listless unemployed people living off of various forms of government assistance today, and this would make it possible for many more to join them.