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Peoplehavespeculatedforcenturiesaboutafuturewithoutwork,.Todayisnodifferent,with
academics,writers,andactivistsonceagain_1_warningthattechnologyisreplacinghuman
-freeworldwillbedefinedby_2_inequality:Afew
wealthypeoplewillownallthecapital,andthemasseswillstruggleinanimpoverishedwasteland.
Adifferentandnotmutuallyexculsive_3_holdsthatthefuturewillbeawastelandofadifferent
sort,one_4_bypurposelessness:Withoutjobstogivetheirlives_5_,peoplewillsimplybecome
,today’sunemployeddon’
pollfoundthat20percentofAmericanswhohavebeenunemployedforatleastayearreport
havingdepression,,someresearchsuggeststhatthe_8_
forrisingratesofmortality,mental-healthproblems,andaddiction_9_poorly-educated,
middle-agedpeopleisashortageofwell-
dullnessofajoblessfuture.
Butitdoesn’t_11_followfromfindingslikethesethataworld
,asociety
designedwithotherendsinmindcould_14_strikinglydifferentcircumstancesforthefutureof
,the_15_ofworkmaybeabitoverblown.“Manyjobsareboring,
degrading,unhealthy,andasquanderingofhumanpotential,”saysJohnDanaher,alectureratthe
NationalUniversityofIrelandinGalwaywhohaswrittenaboutaworldwithoutwork.“Global
surveysfindthatthevastmajorityofpeopleareunhappyatwork.”
Thesedays,becauseleisuretimeisrelatively_16_formostworkers,peopleusetheirfreetimetocounterbalancethe
intellectualandemotional_17_oftheirjobs.“WhenIcomehomefromahardday’swork,I
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