Labor Endgame

[bu villain]

your scenario is moot.

The fact remains that there will be low skilled jobs > medium skilled jobs > Highly technical jobs. All that changes in your scenario is the TYPE of jobs those are.

your question doesnt make any sense. Thats why I cant answer it.

YES people have to work at or more than the absolute minimum for survival. What constitutes survival can change, but the principle doesnt. Amount of labor necessary for survival never approaches 0, economies change, skillsets change, education changes, but fundamentals of economy dont.

Again, SEE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.

We are far more educated and mechanized now than we were in the 1700s. But the main aspects of the economies havent changed. Poor, middle class, upper class.

I really don't know how else to say it. Is work good in and of itself or is it just a necessity with no moral implication?

Is there anything left for humans to do? Could the majority of humans go out and do paid work?

Sure, humans could still do whatever they wanted and charge money just as they do now. The only difference is that basic necessities for everyone is not a concern for anyone. People could use their time to pursue whatever they wanted be it playing video games, starting a business, studying science, etc.

We will always have a system that requires people to work more than the absolute minimum necessary for their personal survival. People are not content to just have the necessities. If you were content with just the necessities, you could get a few acres of land in south GA, build you own house with the timber on the land, and grow your own crops. That, coupled with a little hunting and fishing, could get you by in life. There are some people that do just that and are content with that. The vast majority of us want more than that though, and will try to work harder to have the nicer things in life. In general, people don't want to just survive, they want to thrive.

You technically don't have to work to survive at all right now. You could commit a serious crime, and live off the system in prison, and survive there with no work required. If you don't want that, you could go to the soup kitchens and homeless shelters and survive without work. Or, you could live off government assistance, welfare, and food stamps, like plenty of people do, and never actually have a job.

Yes people who want more than the basic necessities would be free to pursue that. They could start businesses, charge for their product/services etc. Your statement about living on a piece of land in south GA is getting close to what I am getting at, except the house would already be built and the robots would do the farm work for you. If everyone in the world lived such a life, do you see anything wrong with that?