Is work necessary for happiness?

Eventually automation will be the cheapest way to get things done. Robots will do literally everything that humans are paid to do in this world.
When you no longer have to bust your ass to maintain society or survive. What will people do?
Will they endlessly engage in recreational activities?
How would they feel useful?
How many jobs out there today are fake jobs that don't need to exist?
Are we digging holes and filling them?

The absence of jobs could leave humans free to pursue happiness. NEETs are always doing that and most are still miserable. Maybe hard work and jobs are the key to happiness.

For most of human history, people did not work as much as they do now

Then how did they ward off the feeling of being a useless self hating blight on the world?

Community

You mean social shit?

>people did not work as much as they do now
2 days a week.
5 hours per day.
Good old times.

Life without work is boring as fuck
We need to work to be happy

>We need
You need.

But oh well, as someone once said - work will set you free.

People don't need to wage slave but they need purpose. Having a job is part of that even though we work too many hours these days. NEETs are just in general dysfunctional most will be miserable no matter what.

Happiness is a frame of reference.
As they say, suffering is easier when borne together.

>Happiness is a frame of reference
Utilitarianism was a mistake.

What the fuck? Human civilization consisted of serfs, upper class (which I include religious figures in) and military, which is mostly comprised of serfs who work everyday on a farm. Are you legitimately saying peasants didn't have to work a ridiculous amount of time, and expend a ridiculous amount of effort?

Imagine being such a wageslave lmao

>What the fuck?
Is this a bait?

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Work is fundamentally necessary to the human psyche. Not necessarily in the form of 40 hours a week office jobs, but people need both something to do and something to work towards.

This is one very important reason why a free basic income is a terrible idea.

yes, humans become decadent and corrupt when they are not grounded in reality, they need feedback, both positive and negative

Yes that's what he is saying you cunt. He's saying that the 40 hour workweek comes down to more hours worked than what peasants had to do when you include all the holidays.

We are referring to work as a job numb nuts, no one is arguing that with all the new time people will just sit in a room all day. they can use their new time for self betterment and contributing to society.

Automation will become normal like it or not.

Peasants having to work their asses off like slaves the entire day every day is a complete meme.

I think the reason that NEETs are miserable is because there is a huge stigma attached to being unemployed

You ever had a job in your life? There is some shit that plain cannot be automated, or necessarily requires human interaction as a core function of the job. Not to mention the fact that there are less sexy jobs that will always need bodies to fill.

The automation meme applies directly to manufacturing, but extrapolates to pure retardation when applied to the gestalt of the workforce.

>no one is arguing that with all the new time people will just sit in a room all day. they can use their new time for self betterment and contributing to society.

Except from what we've seen of NEETs, that doesn't happen
>b-b-but NEETs are just inherently dysfunctional!

Why then are NEETs increasingly existing in societies with generous welfare states, or at least where the overall prosperity of the state enables parents to support NEET life?

You're just trying to avoid the inevitable conclusion that FALC would lead to a society of anime-binge-watching NEETs

The obvious solution is to make anime real

>Japan has one of the worst NEET situations in the world
>Not a generous welfare state, Citizens do not have a right to be supported by the government, and being on welfare is a huge social stigma

Holy shit, no. NEETdom iss fun for the first six months or so but after you spend more than a year locked inside your home your sleep schedule goes to shit, social contact starts to send you into a panic, you get physical side effects like brain fog and you basically become a zombie. All of this could be alleviated by a NEETdom is as every bit as addictive as a real drug since it tends to lock you into a self-destructive lifestyle and burns out your brain like one, too.
t. former depressed NEET

Millenials, ladies and gentlemen