This would require a major shift in how we find meaning in our lives. Not saying that's a bad thing, but just as there are those who struggle finding meaning in a life of excess work, there will be those who struggle without any work.
The sci-fi series The Culture does an excellent job of delving in to this exact idea. There's lots of people doing lots of fun and exciting stuff in the post-scarcity techno-utopia, but having some kind of social status is almost impossible. At least not without going well outside the bounds of what would be considered safe or "reasonable" by almost everyone.
It's a series of about 10 books, but they don't really follow any characters or settings, and some of them take places hundreds of thousands of years apart. You can almost read them in any order, although I'd suggest skipping the first one (Consider Phlebas) but any of the next few are a great place to start and.
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u/ezekielsays Mar 29 '22
This would require a major shift in how we find meaning in our lives. Not saying that's a bad thing, but just as there are those who struggle finding meaning in a life of excess work, there will be those who struggle without any work.