An item on the list, for many people, of what makes a utopia ( a perfect society or world), is surprising to me. It is "imagine a world in which no one had to work". I cannot imagine such a world. We could already have a world with twenty-hour (or maybe ten-hour) work weeks. But no work is not possible. Machines could never do it--we would literally have to return to slavery--no work for some, and a lot of work for others. This is not my idea of a utopia.
You can hear this idea, or read it, as part of the groovy "counterculture" of the 1960's. I heard it again the other night--it was in a PBS special about Haight-Ashbury.--a quote from a "hippie".
The philosophical underpinning of this is from the Bible. Adam and Eve did not have to work when they were in paradise. When they were exiled from paradise, Adam had to earn his living, and Eve had to suffer in childbirth. An entire set of people is still raising children to believe that work is a punishment for sin--and that as long as they do no work they are, in fact, in paradise.
Suggestion--find out more about what other people believe--it may be important to you.
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