Automation may bring the realisation that we're not hard-wired to work
Dubbed “the original affluent society”, modern humans could learn a lot from hunter-gatherers' attitude to work. or those of us not tormented by visions of a Terminator-style dystopia, the most urgent question posed by automation is: “What will people do if robots take their jobs?” The same problem troubled John Maynard Keynes, who suggested in 1930 that within a century, capital growth, technological advances and productivity gains could create an economic utopia in which nobody would need to work more than 15 hours a week.
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