Can it be argued that work is miserable for everyone, including children? Current trends doesn't only seek to abolish child worker, it aims to free it from everyone.

Of course, whether it'd actually be better for everyone or it'd actually be stable is another can of worm entirely.

I think humans are hard wired to work or to at least produce something to find value and I personally think relieving everyone from forced work would produce a lot of aimless and suicidal beings. Not every is going to appreciate the freedom and start producing pottery. I'm wholly aware that I am influenced by a Puritan work ethic

>"forced work"

Fuck that

I think it's less about "work" and more about reason for being. Work is sort of the easiest, lowest friction way to find that.

Post-scarcity and post-work society takes a formal effort for people to find purpose. It requires that we really try to find things that are valuable and that we enjoy.

But I do not believe we will live, as a society, to see the end of scarcity or jobs. We'll kill ourselves way before we get to that point.

> Not every is going to appreciate the freedom and start producing pottery.

You're right - some may "do nothing", but the kind of people that would "do nothing" if nobody were forced to work to live are the kind of people, by and large, that do just enough to get by.

Even if we instituted a generous UBI, people would still have to work to live because landlords/real estate speculator aren't going to let all of those money slosh around freely - they want theirs too.

To be fair, there's a lot of room between having to work to eat and learning what hard work is.

A childhood of workin outside, whether that's working with animals or working in the soil, teaches entirely different lessons than living in video games or social media and eating food that magically shows up on grocery store shelves.

I obviously don't know you or your children and am picking on video games and social media only in a general example of many children's common experiences today.