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Who needs jobs if you have food and internet entertainment in abundance?




Who is paying for the food (including delivery or transportation) and various streaming services?

What food? You mean ultra processed garbage that will kill you?

A whole shit-ton of people in developed countries would not be happy with that, demonstrated by those:

1) choose not to simply coast on the social safety net, and seek out jobs for status and additional things than those. why do they do those when by historical standards they could be wildly comfortable without the bullshit work?

2) do coast (opting to just go on disability, say) but are generally extremely unhappy about it in ways that frequently cause problems for the rest of the people

3) opt out entirely from the social safety net and chose to try to live on the streets instead, whether for a desire for some sort of freedom or because of poor impulse control caused by addiction or similar (which also frequently leads to problems for the rest of the people)


Internet entertainment will be abundant on purpose.

Not sure about quality food.


Who said anything about quality? Preserved and processed foods are necessarily lower-quality but they sure are economically efficient.

Sufficient for you maybe

Can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.

These don't magically appear - people have to create / store / distribute those things, and/or develop the science / engineering to do so.


Can you imagine someone willing to do those things because of some reason other than monetary gain, as it would be in OP's world? How many people currently stuck in Jobs would work toward accomplishing these things with the idea of ending world hunger, because they _want_ to do it, instead of having to do it because they have student loans and bills to pay?

I don't think there's anyone out there working on solving world hunger because they have loans and bills to pay. It isn't a monetarily profitable endeavor.

People have to have the buying power to support the chain you describe. If the buying power of a population vanishes, such as by being made superfluous, they get a large population reduction whether they like it or not.

And eventually all this will be primarily automated, with a few humans contributing because they love to develop things in science, engineering, etc.



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