For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose

Re:For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose by komali2 on Thursday June 07, 2018 @08:28PM (#17261573)

I've recently read "Walkaway" which posited that the most satisfying life is one living in a community with what amounts to essentially a public Trello board with tasks on that anybody can do at any time. "take out garbage for the bread and breakfast" "clean solar panels on hospital roof" "priority: emergency!!! Man with broken leg needs bones set" that sort of thing.

Given how satisfying I find open source work, I find the idea very attractive...

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Re:For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose by Schwolop on Friday June 08, 2018 @01:54AM (#17262940)

That would be pretty fun to build as a gamified social network. "Bob Smith (2 houses away) received a six-pack of beer from Giselle Citizen (3 blocks away) for cleaning the graffiti off her fence."

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Re:For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose by komali2 on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:14AM (#17266220)

Ah, except that was a very key point! Nobody exchanged goods for work done. What would be the point of that when everyone had access to public 3d printers that could assemble whatever you needed? The Walkaways were explicitly cashless in any and all of its forms.

Private property was also rare among them, as were fences...

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Re:For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose by empath75 on Friday June 08, 2018 @12:40AM (#17262642)

So basically The Witcher.

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Re:For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose by komali2 on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:17AM (#17266252)

Minus rewards offered for tasks completed and political power structures, yes.

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