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A comment on Post-Scarcity Economics (2013). Parent comment

Re:Post-Scarcity Economics (2013) by ralmidani on Friday October 20, 2017 @09:49AM (#15515713)
People also like to get married, have families, socialize, play sports, go to nice restaurants, attend shows, etc.

Your vision also assumes every human wants to, or can, be a knowledge worker. A lot of people can only function as manual laborers.

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Re:Post-Scarcity Economics (2013) by jstanley on Friday October 20, 2017 @12:08PM (#15516894)
Those things are true now, but I don't think it'll take too many generations for what I described to be considered totally normal.
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