No utopia: experts question Elon Musk’s vision of world without work

Using AI to create less and better work would benefit society but getting rid of it altogether would be unproductive, experts say

Oscar Wilde thought hard work the refuge" of those with nothing better to do while he envisaged a society of cultivated leisure" as machines performed the necessary and unpleasant tasks.

Karl Marx's dream was of a society regulated general production that allowed liberated workers to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner" without the drudgery of being tied to one job.