alt Hacker NewsI think a lot of people would be fine being idle if they had a guaranteed standard of living. When I was unemployed for a while, I was pretty happy in general but stressed about money running out. Without the money issue the last thing I would want to do is to sell my time to a soulless corporation. I have enough interests to keep me busy. Work just sucks up time I would love to spend on better things.
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_heimdall • yesterday at 4:21 PM
Oh for sure, I should have included that. I was thinking of people being idle by choice rather than circumstance.
> a lot of people would be fine being idle if they had a guaranteed standard of living
just a lot of words for "lazy" - it's built in to living organisms.
The whole economic system today is constructed to ensure that one would suffer from being "lazy". And this would be the case until post-scarcity.