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BobbyTables2today at 2:07 AM3 repliesview on HN

More than a mindset, it also takes quite a bit of money to live in a permanent vacation 24/7, even modestly.

Aside from the income, employment also has a way of occupying one’s time. Without that, one would often spend additional funds on various forms of entertainment (books, movies, crafts, travel, etc.)…


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dyauspitrtoday at 3:20 AM

I disagree. I think certain art and creative pursuits will always garner a premium when it’s human made, no matter how good something computer generated is. Just look at the game of chess. No one watches two computers playing each other even though they’re better than any human in the world. People watch other people play. There are lots of avenues like that where people will only watch other people do things, or only purchase things made by other people, even if they are lower quality.

I’m also envisioning an age of abundance. It’s not just your basic necessities of life met. If you have essentially free, electricity and all labor done by robots, that’s not an impossible thing to foresee.

I also think for a large group of people child rearing will take up a huge chunk of their time with many more children being born now that all of the unenviable parts of raising a child can be outsourced to robots.

Honestly, yes, it does sound like fantastical utopian thinking, but I don’t think you have to make that many leaps to get there.

mc32today at 2:19 AM

Without direction or a pull in life people tend to self-destruct. Even the wealthy are susceptible to this. Hollywood nepotites are a nice example: they live off their parents's wealth or easily acquired money and self-destroy themselves. They are not engaging in higher pursuits but rather basic degeneration. Not all of course; some do good, productive things.

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littlexsparkeetoday at 3:13 AM

Not really - books and movies at the library are free and those who cultivate interests will find no trouble filling up the day.