alt Hacker NewsYes in fact, to me it’s not a utopia that everyone’s going to paint landscapes, write poetry, or play musical instruments all day.
I worry more that an idle humanity will cause a lot more conflict. “An idle mind’s the devil’s playground” and all.
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I don’t think people would be idle. They’d just be concerned with different things, like social dynamics, games/competition/sports, raising family etc.
Tell that to any monk…
What an absurd straw man. Moving the needle away from “large portions of the population are a few paychecks away from being homeless” does not constitute “the devil’s playground”.
Where’s all of the articles that HN loves about kids these days not being bored anymore? What about google’s famous 20% time?
Idle time isn’t just important, it’s the point.
I wish people could handle an idle mind, I expect we'd all be better off. But yeah, realistically most people when idle would do a lot of damage.
Its always possible that risk would be transitional. Anyone alive today, at least in western style societies, likely doesn't know a life without high levels of stress and distraction. It makes sense that change would cause people to lash out, maybe people growing up in that new system would handle it better (if they had the chance).