What would happen in a jobless world?

[BuildaBox]

To all of you people out there, what do you think would happen if we lived in a jobless world? Robots did everything that was needed to sustain Earth and people. People no longer need to do any kind of work, and anything and everything is free of cost.(However weapons would be nonexistent) If you're hungry you can just go down the street and get a cheeseburger free of charge. Would people stop learning and just become dumb, or would they continue education just because? Seeing as people would no longer be jealous of others because you can have anything you want, would crime completely halt? I don't know why, but I thought about this this morning and I was just wondering the forum's opinions.

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[Legoboss]

We would be the guy from nonnels first adventure.

[Banana]

I don't think crime would stop at all because there are always wankers who simply get off to breaking stuff.
Besides, I reckon there'd be a lot of terrorist attacks on central data hives and such by people who find this new, jobless world disturbing and dystopian.

[Alteration]

You still need people to repair broken robots and make new ones, and you'll probably still need doctors and the like, and we'll need teachers to teach them those skills, etc. There will never be a jobless society.

[BuildaBox]

You still need people to repair broken robots and make new ones, and you'll probably still need doctors and the like, and we'll need teachers to teach them those skills, etc. There will never be a jobless society.

For the sake of this topic, all of this is ignored. We're just going to assume that it is possible.

[Daedalus]

You still need people to repair broken robots and make new ones, and you'll probably still need doctors and the like, and we'll need teachers to teach them those skills, etc. There will never be a jobless society.

Nope.
Advanced AIs take care of repair and manufacturing, along with medicine distribution and surgeries. Also, information could be taught extremely efficiently with machines.
Basically, everyone would go into the entertainment industry.

[sir dooble]

You still need people to repair broken robots and make new ones, and you'll probably still need doctors and the like, and we'll need teachers to teach them those skills, etc. There will never be a jobless society.

Machines that repair or replace other machines and build new ones.
Doctors replaced by medicinal machines that can brown townyse and diagnose and treat.
Surgeons replaced by surgical machines.
Teachers replaced by robots which can contain a vastly superior amount of knowledge and teach it to humans.
   
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Or, what Daedalus said.

[Qwepir]

The machines realize how useless we are and wipe us out.

[sir dooble]

The machines realize how useless we are and wipe us out.

Then what would they do?

[TeslaCoil]

would crime completely halt?

No. And there even can't be a "what if" scenario for this. Humanity is work driven and has always been that way. No matter how many lazy people there are on the planet.

[Qwepir]

Then what would they do?

Build their own future.

[BuildaBox]

And there even can't be a "what if" scenario for this. Humanity is work driven and has always been that way. No matter how many lazy people there are on the planet.

For the sake of this topic, all of this is ignored. We're just going to assume that it is possible.

[Alteration]

Machines that repair or replace other machines and build new ones.
Doctors replaced by medicinal machines that can brown townyse and diagnose and treat.
Surgeons replaced by surgical machines.
Teachers replaced by robots which can contain a vastly superior amount of knowledge and teach it to humans.

Nope.
Advanced AIs take care of repair and manufacturing, along with medicine distribution and surgeries. Also, information could be taught extremely efficiently with machines.
Basically, everyone would go into the entertainment industry.

So that helps, but it would make for a serious weak point/criminal target in the system. I hope they can repair themselves quickly.

[TeslaCoil]

So are we trying to answer the question to an improbable scenario for the sake of entertainment?

[BuildaBox]

So are we trying to answer the question to an improbable scenario for the sake of entertainment?

Yes.