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 …
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.
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 …
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.
…But the society might be more in line with Judge Dredd’s hometown: Mega-City One - Wikipedia
I’d do it, but society better know that I’m doing it.
This isn’t quite the same thing, but have you read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin?
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.