&gt;<i>Just as it&#x27;d be absurd to imagine a world in which no-one works and yet we all have food, clothing, new computers, entertainment</i><p>Ever heard of automation? We might not get a world in which &quot;no-one works and yet we all have ...&quot;, but we sure can get a world in which no-one works more than a small number of hours per day, and maybe even 2-3 times a week, and we still all have food, clothing, new computers, entertainment and co.<p>Most work done in modern societies (especially outside of Chinese factories, African sweatshops and Latin American farms) is busywork. And even most work done in those places is to get us 2000 varieties of t-shirts, sneakers and mobile phones, when we could do with 100 or 20 just as well (and even better).