Picture this: robots do all the farming, manufacturing, and basic production. Food, housing, healthcare - all covered. No more grinding just to pay rent or put dinner on the table.
What would you actually do with your life?
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. We're so used to the hustle - wake up, work, pay bills, repeat. But what happens when that cycle breaks? When survival isn't the main quest anymore?
Maybe we'd finally have time for the stuff that actually matters. Learn that language you've been putting off. Write terrible poetry. Teach kids how to build things. Spend real time with people instead of just texting between meetings.
The scary part? A lot of us might not know what to do with ourselves. Work gives structure, purpose, identity. Take that away and some people might just... drift. Or get really into weird hobbies. Or start cults. Who knows.
Most people spend 2,000 hours a year working just to get by. What if you could use that time for what truly excites you?
But here's the thing - humans are naturally curious and creative. We make art on cave walls, build sandcastles, help strangers for no reason. Maybe when we're not stressed about survival, we'd rediscover what we're actually good at.
The real question isn't whether robots will take our jobs. It's whether we'll be ready to figure out who we are when we don't need jobs to live.
What would you create if you knew you'd never go hungry?