OTOH, I wonder if gaming explains how the fall in crime continued unabated through the great recession.
In the 1950s, futurists hoped we'd work way less. Now it's happening, and it doesn't seem so good. https://www.1843magazine.com/features/escape-to-another-world …
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we have a huge surplus of value of labor compared to cost of food/clothing/toys. Most of it goes to bidding up house prices.
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housing excepted, I can live very comfortably on 10%-15% of my after tax salary.
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the society figured out how to produce more wealth with less work time, but not how to distribute it
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Produced plenty of more wealth but not much more status, which is why someone living like a medieval king is pitied.
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As robots and software become the new workforce, don't you think we'll move to a world of leisure/scholarship/friendly competition?
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Eventually, maybe. Initially, you’ll have lots of people who have never not worked—like
@paulg—dealing with existential ennui.
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with all the free time folks can volunteer to do abandoned jobs, like science, environmental monitoring, meals on wheels, ...
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assumptions about feelings of common humanity leading to sharing instead of centralization now seen quaint, unfortunately
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