That job was not a long term position most would either move on or up. People are more flexible than machines. They're a better choice if you can afford it.
Living off of redistributed hand outs sounds like a horrible way to live. How do you improve your life? How do you find meaning?
I live in a country that has 3rd generation beneficiaries. Their lives don't appear enjoyable. Once in that mind set it's so hard to get out. They often turn to drugs and mindless entertainment.
You're on a site full of motivated self-learners who would hopefully use that free time to improve their selves and contribute to far more interesting, useful, and fulfilling things than making the widgets the machine can make.
Most of us also probably live in countries where a significant fraction of the population would choose Playstation/Netflix/heroin instead. That's their choice, but you're probably right that much of it is learned behavior. Perhaps some significant resources (government funded or volunteered) should be applied toward teaching people how to make better use of their free time, if that's what they want.
It's certainly a better vision than making widgets 40 hours a week for a company with dubious social impact.
Living off of redistributed hand outs sounds like a horrible way to live. How do you improve your life? How do you find meaning?
I live in a country that has 3rd generation beneficiaries. Their lives don't appear enjoyable. Once in that mind set it's so hard to get out. They often turn to drugs and mindless entertainment.