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In futurology, political science, and science fiction, a post-work society is a society in which the nature of work has been radically transformed and traditional employment has become obsolete due to technological progress.[1]
Some post-work theorists imagine the complete automation of all jobs, or at least the takeover of all monotonous, rule-based, predictable and repetitive (and thus unworthy of humans) tasks in the future by ultimately cheaper, faster, more efficient, more reliable and more accurate intelligent machines.[2][3] Additionally, these machines can work in harsher conditions and for longer periods of time without stopping than humans,[4] which is expected to lead to a transition period of rapid economic growth, despite high rates of ever-increasing human unemployment.[5] Overall, this development is expected to lead to an enormous increase in prosperity, provided that the wealth is redistributed.[6][7]