Try out this idea in 1913. Thanks to new technologies we can grow enough food for everyone if 30% of us work full-time on the farm. It seems that full-time farm work by 30% of us is going to doom the rest of us to destructive unemployment. Let's legislate that farm work hours be capped at 12 hours per worker per week so that everyone can maintain their farm employment. That's no more ridiculous than this proposal of Schiller's. Today, it looks like we can feed everyone and give them all the material goods they can use and all of the traditional services they can use if 85% or 90% of us work full-time to provide those things. (And the alarmists predict that this will drop to 25% or 30% or less with robotics.) Is the solution to restrict individual work-lives so that all can continue to work the existing jobs? Of course not. The sensible thing to do is to expand the sphere of things we do for each other. Since we are approaching full feeding of ourselves and full provision of physical stuff, the place this will go is more services to each other. The expanding sphere is going to be more help to each other in the form of entertainment, healthcare (remedial and restorative), healthcare (preventative), healthcare (expansive), education, social and leisure activity, spiritual care, etc. all very broadly defined and with innovations to come that we literally do not imagine now, anymore than in 1913 we could have imagined the mechanical, electrical and electronic worlds (and jobs) that were about to be created. The biggest mistake we can make is to adopt policies that require or even encourage people to keep doing and viewing jobs as the same things that they have been for recent decades. How much longer would it have taken to transform the material world if there had been policies in place strongly encouraging people to stay on the farm? Yes, those pushed off the farm suffered while we collectively discovered what they could do for themselves and the rest of us but the very fact that they had to figure it out (or work for those who were figuring it out) advanced the world we all live in. The same thing is going to happen now. The fact that we can't imagine (most of us) what the new work and world will be is precisely the reason that we need to allow fairly unfettered innovation to discover it and we need to be careful not to make it too comfortable for people no longer needed in the old jobs to avoid the pain of finding their way into the new ones.