Aliens come to Earth (An example of why they will not)

[Unbound]

I absolutely agree, but I also believe that a huge portion of those jobs are either unnecessary or only existing for money, or that the people who don't like their current jobs or projects are actually also interested in things which are also still useful (I assure you, 40 year old WoW addicts are a minority in the face of the global population), and in fact if there was such freedom I believe humans would not actually stop doing things, but they would drop the desire and necessity for re-numeration and instead set about building projects just for the sake of doing those projects because the truth is that true human diversity shows that there are people which are made for almost everything. Money would become defined by communion.

Look at the interests and focuses people have. Every human subject ever thought of and conceived of as knowledge has been a human interest. That is a HUGE spectrum of focus, and so I actually believe the human race is perfectly equipped through its people to have a complete and coherent structure of activity while still maintaining individual freedom and creativity. The problem is that we have a bad sense of arrangement and we put people where they do not have interest or affinity. The problem is not that people want to do nothing or to be lazy, it's that the things people ACTUALLY want to do seem so far out of reach that there is an innate depression of sorts which leads to apathy or giving up.

It's hard to be human, I will say that.