Would the labour-less utopia be socially desireable?

[Oexmelin]

Yeah a labourless society would greatly favor creative types and that would be the primary path of distinction.

We would all be aristocrats, sometimes brilliant but usually degenerate.

Why were you acidic in that other thread it if ihere you subscribe to Jean-Jacques   

[Valmy]

Why were you acidic in that other thread it if ihere you subscribe to Jean-Jacques   

My attitudes do not transfer between threads

[CountDeMoney]

Jean-Jacques   

[Crazy_Ivan80]

I'm sure we'll cope. There were no factories or offices for most of our existence.

there was, however, work to do. Those stone tools don't make themselves and the beast didn't magically change into steaks and leather clothes either.

[The Brain]

Eve ate some fruit so it won't happen.

[Lettow77]

 Yes. Meeting material desires without needing to sully one's hands, and being free to pursue activities purely based on one's inner drive to create, receive recognition, or achieve, is the ideal.

[DGuller]

I think sense of purpose is vital for the emotional well-being.  If utopia is anything like the world today, minus the need to work, then I think it would be a problematic arrangement.  Then again, new things could pop up in a society that would give people a sense of purpose that we can't even conceive of today.

[MadImmortalMan]

Yes. Meeting material desires without needing to sully one's hands, and being free to pursue activities purely based on one's inner drive to create, receive recognition, or achieve, is the ideal.

You would think so on the surface, but in reality you would hate it. Particularly men would hate it. It would be suicide city.

[grumbler]

Why were you acidic in that other thread it if ihere you subscribe to Jean-Jacques   

My attitudes do not transfer between threads

Well played!

[Grinning_Colossus]

People who are internally motivated or bore easily could devote themselves to lives of scholarship, science, or art. The rest could enjoy their utopia.

[Iormlund]

I'm sure we'll cope. There were no factories or offices for most of our existence.

there was, however, work to do. Those stone tools don't make themselves and the beast didn't magically change into steaks and leather clothes either.

Food processing would occupy most of that time. Making tons of tools and clothes doesn't make sense if you are a nomad and haven't yet domesticated beasts to carry your stuff around when you move camp.

[Ideologue]

I guess I could live with it.  I mean, it's basically what I do now.  My job is pretty laborless.

[Razgovory]

Yes. Meeting material desires without needing to sully one's hands, and being free to pursue activities purely based on one's inner drive to create, receive recognition, or achieve, is the ideal.

You would think so on the surface, but in reality you would hate it. Particularly men would hate it. It would be suicide city.

Oh yeah.  Days and weeks all mix together.  Your night and day get screwed up since you don't have to be awake for anything.  Next thing you know, ten years have passed by.

[Grinning_Colossus]

Units of time seem more discrete if you go outside and do something every day.

[The Brain]

Something? Or someone?