RE: The End of Work?

You did an excellent job of putting that conundrum into words. And I have no answers.

Twenty years ago I worked at a theme park during the summer. I was fifty-ish, while most of my co-workers were teens. A few of them had a good work ethic, but many of them were just there to obtain a paycheck by their presence, not by actually working for it. Some of them learned to work; some never did. If AI and robots take over all the work, most people will never learn how to work, which is a pity, because it's good for us, psychologically if nothing else, to know how to work and feel the satisfaction of a job well done and payment earned.