Hypothetical: it's happened. Robots have taken most of the jobs and humans are out of work. What do you do with your newly gained free time?

Assume some social net is in place to provide basic needs and you won't just starve in the street. Do you bury yourself in entertainment? Or do you get bored and pursue projects of learning our productivity? Do you waste away our do you their without a career path to define you?

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sighmeupforthat · 46-50, M

you do realize automation's been around since the later 19th. century?

and it doesn't take jobs, it creates, get with the times or cost the taxpayer's money.

(where have most of you people been? ???)

ViciDraco · 36-40, M

@sighmeupforthat the automation before was muscle automation. It handled horsepower and precision. New automation is mental and creative. It is the mind that is being automated, which opens a whole new world.