# You are the only one who has to work. Would you do it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 3, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-only-one-who-has-to-work-would-you-do-it/805776 "2018-01-03T00:09:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-only-one-who-has-to-work-would-you-do-it/805776/41 "2018-01-03T23:17:34Z")
Do I have kids at home? … that’s 128 hours a week work … I’d jump at the chance to get away for 40 hours a week … ---
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-only-one-who-has-to-work-would-you-do-it/805776/42 "2018-01-03T23:32:18Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > That’s it! Thank you. Not exactly as I remembered it, but still close to the point. It’s point-adjacent. 😉 > > There would have to be careful negotiations and publicity control. But if there’s no one else working then I can’t hire a PR firm, can I? Hmmmnnn. I guess I’d have to befriend some bloggers since there’s no media in hopes of getting the right message across. Just a comment, I keep seeing this mistake over and over. If this hypothetical world exists, it means that AI/robots are able to meet every economic need except for your one job. So there would be AI PR firms you could spend credits to use. If there weren’t, then the economic niche would be unfilled, and you would not be the only person working. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-only-one-who-has-to-work-would-you-do-it/805776/43 "2018-01-03T23:40:27Z")
Lets make it more realistic and say 90% of the population doesn’t work because machines can simply do it better. But 10% of us have to work to keep those machines going. Yes I would work. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-only-one-who-has-to-work-would-you-do-it/805776/44 "2018-01-04T00:06:16Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > Lets make it more realistic and say 90% of the population doesn’t work because machines can simply do it better. But 10% of us have to work to keep those machines going. Yes I would work. Those would be cool jobs … ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-only-one-who-has-to-work-would-you-do-it/805776/45 "2018-01-04T00:42:33Z")
If I didn’t work at the originally discussed job, I would probably create a routine that involves doing/making something that benefits others. Why? Because it gives personal satisfaction. Maintaining equipment? Sure, I’d do it for a few years, and then I would switch to my alternate plan. I love to read, watch movies, and go for hikes. But I also love feeling productive. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-only-one-who-has-to-work-would-you-do-it/805776/46 "2018-01-04T00:42:38Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Those would be cool jobs … …But the society might be more in line with Judge Dredd’s hometown: [Mega-City One - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega-City_One#Civilian_population) ---
**Author:** ![Annoying\_Buzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Annoying\_Buzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoying_Buzz)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-only-one-who-has-to-work-would-you-do-it/805776/47 "2018-01-05T03:10:49Z")
I’d do it, but society better know that I’m doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-only-one-who-has-to-work-would-you-do-it/805776/48 "2018-01-05T03:44:18Z")
This isn’t quite the same thing, but have you read _The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas_ by Ursula K. Le Guin? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-only-one-who-has-to-work-would-you-do-it/805776/49 "2018-01-05T09:38:44Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > OK, I’d do it - if for no other reason that this means a lot more free time than I currently enjoy I should say that I was assuming that, in this hypothetical (which clearly involves either magic or some peaceful post-scarcity society) the world won’t go to shit in any particular dramatic and catastrophic way when everyone else has the day off. I’m assuming the magic or the United Federation Of Planets takes good care of that somehow. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-the-only-one-who-has-to-work-would-you-do-it/805776.md?page=2)