Not entirely true, robots cannot do all the tasks necessary for food service. And people would have to maintain the robots anyway.
Correct. Somethings cannot be automated correctly so people would still be required. Mostly for the machinery maintenance, and for fine detail. For example you could automate the sweeping of an entire office building but might still need one person to physically remove the dust from the buildings corners. But this much better than having that person go floor by floor and sweep everything himself though. Its ridiculous. Things like the broom are older than dirt. There are some tasks that are simply not automated to provide people jobs.
so someone should go to work and provide you with food stamps wile your lazy ass sits around and do nothing.
SMH
You don't seem to understand.
Almost
no one needs to go to work at all. So it isn't one group picking up the slack for a second group. It is one group doing something frivolous while the other group refrains. That is not the same thing.
Also, no one needs to be given food stamps. They are merely a different form of cash/credit. They used to be issued as paper promissary notes no different than dollar bills, but now they are issued in the form of a credit card.
There are jobs that are actually required (mostly in agriculture and infastructure) and there would be initial projects neccessary like building alot of the self-sustaining machinery, then there would largely just be maintenance and replenishment positions. But 85% of people are not required to be involved at any level. The entire system can support the 100% with the effort of 15% because of the level of technology and understanding we have at the moment. But then, no one would be rich really. So thats why people are kept working. So other people can be rich.
And the very last point... If you think declining do the same thing everyday is the equivalent of doing nothing you need to expand your parameters. You are implying that your free time is not important. So let me break it down for you.
There is your entire life. Lets say you will live to be 100. (Lucky you)
Cut that in half with the time you spend sick, asleep, or performing basic rituals such as showering or relieving yourself.
Now you have half your life. 50 years to enjoy and experience the world.
Take away about 5 for the total amount of time you are in school K-12... we won't even do college...
45 years left to enjoy.
If you work an 8 hour a day, 5 days a week to make up the standard 40 hour work week. Then having a career that spans 30 years eats 10 years of your life.
35 years left to enjoy.
Some of you might say that isn't so bad... but most of you won't ever see 100.
If you are one of the many who will die around 70... I hate to break it to you... but you have only truely lived 5 years of your life.
People can call me lazy. But I've seen 43 states, 3 countries... and I am happy. So I'm good. I have ha d jobs. I have had careers... but I also had enough free time to learn things and that knowledge quickly put me at odds with basic employment. And again, if your job makes you happy or if you feel like you are doing something useful and important, that is different. I have had fun jobs in the gaming industry and in music, so I get it... but if you get to your deathbed and realize you spent a the majority of your free time screening calls for a pharmacutical company or installing cable boxes or and it was just work, I would just say, ask yourself sooner than later would you be comfortable with that as an old man or woman.