Comment by kelnos

Humans are socialized to want purpose and meaning in life. Modern humans are socialized to put a lot of that meaning into their employment. Many humans have a lot of trouble with unemployment and even retirement, because they feel a lack of purpose.

I think imagining a world where people are universally able to find purpose outside their employment counts as "changing the definition of people". Perhaps less difficult of a change than making us not dependent on oxygen, but still a big enough change not to clear the bar.

> Plenty of people live without working.

A minority of people live without working. And many people who do not work are profoundly unhappy with that state of affairs.

> We're ruled by people who don't work.

That's a cute thing to say, but isn't a serious rebuttal of anything.