In such a case, will the concept of money be wiped from existence ?

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    The art we made would be amazing… and we’d instantly see life spans and QoL skyrocket.

    Working is bad for your health.

  • nick@midwest.social
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    8 months ago

    I’d be bored as hell. I enjoy my job and get a lot of satisfaction from it, so I’d probably still work.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I tell people I will work til I die, partly as a tongue in cheek jab at how bleak the future looks, but also because I find my job to be a good way to occupy my time.

  • Cloudless ☼@feddit.uk
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    8 months ago

    Time will become the currency if other resources are unlimited.

    Time keeps moving forward, and you cannot go back to the past.

  • Atemu@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Depends on how much of our needs would be covered. Not needing to work to survive is different from not needing to work to live a comfortable life which is again different from living a luxurious life.

  • stanleytweedle@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Someone would start to make or do something for fun. Someone else would see it and want one. A market is born. They try bartering for a while, that gets too complicated, then someone remembers money worked pretty well for exchanging goods and services.

    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      Not necessarily. Lots of people already release their “fun” things they make for free. If you had all your needs taken care of, you could release anything you made for free a lot more easily.

      That being said, there will always be limits even if you don’t have to work, there are only so many major sports teams that can be owned by a single person. There can only be so many stays per night at fancy hotels in a particular city.

      • stanleytweedle@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Even with biological needs satisfied human society creates social\cultural ‘needs’ that people will fight\work just as hard to acquire or maintain. ‘Keeping up with the Jones’ can create demand for literally anything. Unless we each get a genie that grants our every wish, we’ll find something to compete over and markets will develop around those.

    • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Historically, barter only tends to appear in communities used to a monetary economy when something temporarily disrupts the currency system. The more common pattern of commerce within communities not previously accustomed to currency is that goods are given in one direction at a time, and incur an informal social debt that may be eventually be repaid with reciprocal goods or by some other means entirely (e.g., support during community disputes).

  • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Would depend how it’s achieved. The most realistic way would be through mass automation, but the question is now “who owns the machines that produce everything?” A minority controlling these means of production would mean the rest of the world is at their mercy. If they manage to maintain their ownership (though a fully automated defense force, I guess), they can have the rest of the world doing whatever they want… But what do they need these people for then? All they are is a threat, as they are prone to revolt. Genocide seems like a handy option if the elites are sufficiently ruthless, but it would be hard to put in place; there are many people in the world and they can be inventive when fighting for their lives. Beside, there would probably be several such elite groups, still divided in different country; one who starts building large armies and stacking weapons might attract hostility from their neighbors. Providing the people with their needs to pacify them? Sure, but what if they want more? Or what if they make their own automated armies with the free time they have not worrying about starvation? Keeping them occupied seems safer. Why not invent some bogus job that doesn’t actually need to be done and have them believe they still need to earn their living? That could solve the problem from the elite’s point of view. So basically, no change for the people.

    With collective ownership of the means of production and an egalitarian spread of wealth, it could be cool tho. People would just do whatever they want, many would still probably undertake collective project, either to further better life of for the fun of it. There could still be forms of conflicts about how some things are managed and by whom, tho…

  • TeoTwawki@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’d stop spending all my tome on trying to survive and poor all my hours into work I want to do instead of have to do. I have a ton of stuff I’d actually want to do that are very definately work but I can’t make a living doing it, so I don’t!

    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      Time to grab me some Soma and check out who is on the carousel tonight!

        • UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works
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          8 months ago

          Yes. I’m saying everyone can come together to work for a common goal. A common goal of a healthier community with fresh food. And they can work on this farm while volunteering thier time since (ideally) nobody would have to have a job

          • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
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            8 months ago

            I put in labor for food. That’s a job. You’re describing a farmer. This is how the majority of humanity has spent the majority of its time until the industrial revolution. If you’re not doing your job farming then you’re doing your job hunting and/or gathering. These are all jobs humans have been doing before we evolved into homo sapiens.

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              8 months ago

              I’m not saying if you help in the community garden you have to spend all your time being a farmer. The beauty of not being forced to have a job is you are free to do what you want. And if you want to spend that free time gardening, awesome. Maybe you want to spend free time helping out people in another way, which is fine. Thar free time is free to do whatever.

              The food situation in this hypothetical situation is covered for everyone. The original question was what happens if nobody has to work anymore. That includes you food being covered. So everyone would have there basic nutritional needs met everyday. But after your tired of eating basic foods, you can go down to the community garden and help grow fresh food for all to eat.

              We have a chance to evolve to a species that doesn’t need to hunt or gather out of necessity, but we should still try to let those skills help us thrive

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        8 months ago

        I don’t want to garden, could I exchange some of my goods for yours? Maybe a standard currency so that it was easy to share that with someone else.

        • UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works
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          8 months ago

          You wouldnt have to garden if that’s not what youre good at. You would be able to help out your community in whatever way best suits you.

          But in this scenario, UBI doesn’t mean nobody works anymore. It just means nobody lives a life where any day they could homeless and without food. But if you want to live a life of luxury you still work. But you don’t HAVE to.

  • APassenger@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    We need teachers. Many would do it, but they want respect and support.

    So I’m guessing they’d need money.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      Let’s be realistic, if humans continue to exist we’re going to be raised and educated in AI powered pods