Once every job is automated by AI and robots, would you live in a retro community?

[Independent voter]

Here's the scenario: It's 50-100 years in the future, artificial intelligence, AI is common place, so are robots. Just about every job except for extremely human oriented jobs like nursing and childcare are automated.

You have a 100% free time on you hands. You can play videogames all day long, take drugs, whatever, nobody cares. You don't need to show up for work in the morning because there is no work.

So retro communities startup. You can pretty much pick your year, 1950's, 1990's, 2000's, etc. When you live in these communities it's just like you were living in that time period, no AIs, primitive video games, etc. Everyone has a job, a real life human mechanic works on your manually driven car, a real life human plumber fixes your sink. A human does your taxes.

Of course you can always go on vacation to the real world outside of the community.

In the US the Amish live like it was 1880, horses, lots of manual labor. They've turned their back on the advance of technology, would you?

[The Boomking]

Nah, I want to keep with the times and see where it takes us. While the initial nostalgia for a bygone time might be fun, it would quickly become evident that the very nature of the community won't allow it to progress, and you'd get bored within a few years at most.

[oxymoronic]

nobody would live like that.. also the amish dont live like the 1800s right now, they live like the amish do in 2015.

[Antbregante]

Hell no. If I didn't have to work a day in my life I would be a happy man.

[Gemini Sunrise]

nobody would live like that.. also the amish dont live like the 1800s right now, they live like the amish do in 2015.

Yeah, they've definitely learned technicalities out of their stuff.

[Blueobelisk]

Sooo...do I work or do I not work....I'm gonna go with the 100% free time.

[Kivimetsan]

Drop me off in the 60s

Hopefully by then the legal drug markets will be booming too

Shits gonna get real weird

[derpkitteh]

lolno. though, a 50's community might be fun for a little while. cute dresses, cute hairdos, cool music, cool car designs.

[Theodarzna]

1920's town call me up, give me a Tommy gun and a flapper dress and a bottle of vodka!

[Deleted]

hmm I'd love to live through the 90's again :P

[shadowmouse]

No, no retro for me.

I am already old and I can look back across the decades. Life moves on, I'll keep trying to find challenges that keep up with the changes instead of trying to look back.

[Deleted]

Is this because of Fallout? lol.

Honestly, I think money and corporations, culture, all the advancements we made, while cool, is the worst thing that happened to humanity. We've lost sight of the basics and everyone is suffering from stress and we're living in a pretty unfair society. I think a lot of us would like a break from that, but permanently living in the 1950's isn't the answer.

[Deleted]

You have a 100% free time on you hands. You don't need to show up for work in the morning because there is no work.

That alone makes it a clear choice for me. ^^

[Kokolums]

They would probably set up matrix style virtual realities where you can do this if you wanted.

Its quite possible we are all playing in one right now.

[The Casualty]

No. I'm not a Luddite.

In 50 years I'll be old, but never too old to adapt. Something will always need doing.

[Deleted]

people work to much in this days dude they even work when they are sick

its more easy to live Amish style they just plant stuff an eat it raise animals and eat them real world is way harder

[Ergar]

Fuck no. Why would i abandon the eventual virtual reality porn to go back to the 90's or something??

[micwini]

Are these like legacy servers IRL?

Dunno, would not like to live in the past. I would take a look but probably not stay there

[slime]

I have to go to work... wtf are you talking about. Just another day in the robot repair industry.

[Adam Jensen]

I'd go forward, not backwards.

This particular era is incredibly annoying. We have all this great technology but space travel is still just out of reach. I want my Star Wars level civilization dammit!