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USSR style. We can all be our ideal selves. We can finally be writers and artists living in our own large single family homes who teach children on the side, but only when we feel up to it.
And no one has to be the guy who works on the sewers or anything unpleasant like that. Plus, maybe someone wants to do that work, idk. And if not, uh... robots can do it. Who builds, programs, hauls around, and uses the robots whose sole job is to unclog sewers? Uh, nerds, I guess. Or... other robots, maybe, idk.
There will be no need for forced labor at all under this new system.
If only there was a way to encourage people to do things besides forcing them.
It is hard to beat the current system that encourages people to work a single profession for ~30 years 5 days a week in order to foster expertise. And somehow, (rightly or not) manages to make most of them feel like they do it willingly.
The previous system beat it; fostering expertise across generations by inheriting your job from your dad. And they thought they were free too.
Ah yes, good old fear.