Would you trade a below-average living standard for never working again in an AI economy?
simmol · reddit · 2026-10-16
A Reddit thought experiment proposes a middle path between AI utopia and dystopia: society guarantees basics (small home, limited Waymo use, food/clothing/healthcare) at a retiree-like living standard that improves with technology, in exchange for no one in your family ever needing to work again. The author argues most discourse only imagines extreme outcomes, and asks whether this 'good enough' scenario is actually so bad.
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