Indeed, I&#x27;m skeptical of anything that promises to free people from work. I think of it as a mobility scooter for healthy people - the idea of not having to walk and be tired might sound appealing, but the actual use will leave you in much worse shape.<p>Japan seems to have one solution to this problem. It&#x27;s a culture that highly discourages idleness, yet also aims to look after people&#x27;s welfare, so they have a very large number of (practically speaking) quite useless jobs - crossing guards on parking lot exits and streets with no traffic, platform attendants, park attendands, etc. It was quite weird seeing this at first, but once I started thinking about it as a socially acceptable form of welfare, it made a lot of sense.<p>I don&#x27;t think their system will work here (serving people is seen quite positively there, whereas here it is often looked down upon here), but it is a good working example.