I'm a Utopian idealist - prove me wrong!

Human Motivation To Work: If you're naive enough to think that humans will rise and work for years only to serves other's needs, which, by the way, would be living through leisure only, well I must say that most of people would disagree with you. Of course, learning music is an entertainment, but the real question is, would you agree to receive 15 years of education to gain the ability to learn it? While you can content yourself, for the moment, with the already existing art labour from the old industry, and pass a life dedicated to pleasure and leisure? Your argument with open-source project such as Wikipedia stands no ground: It has been done by individual that already had specialization in the field they've wrote about, specialization acquired through, once again, multiple year of education. Another remnant problem with a leisure society would be the long-term research stop, as one will certainly not embarrass himself with 20 years of education for research in a very limited field. ------------------------ This sole argument destroy your thesis, as a society with more than 50% of his population working thorough law, entertainment, research, and security cannot be considered as a "leisure" society. ------------------------ As for the paradox part, your example is nothing more than a logical fallacy, while mine stands real ground. (No offence intended, of course) First of all, unless you are, once again, being incredibly naive, a country's work production being redefined into automation cannot be considered as a "free-source" project. To achieve such considerable changes, you will first need large amount of investor, (the one's you cited were made to serve either national security purposes, or to augment production-- To gain more money, that is), and even with automatism, you would still need considerable amount of resource to achieve it in the first time: and this is even more true with in-development countries. ------------------------ Now, my question is, and I would like a direct answer: Considering huge amounts of money being needed for international export/import, military needs, energy production costs, and etc, do you think that a country such as India would use his welfare to research expansive and uncertain technologies (Most of them, are, at best, in the experimental stage) to be able to let down money? ------------------------ Another problem with the automation, indirect control and energy production: It can (and probably will) be very easily turned into a massive military project with incredible outcomes for the government. In some part, it already has, view: http://www.whitehouse.gov.... Considering this, the average company or citizen will probably not be able to access them, preventing free-source project to see the day. ------------------------ Those are the change I assert : The resources needed for the development of those very technologies, while so many other issues are at hand, The need for employees thorough law, entertainment, research, and security due to the inability for AI's to take over those sectors, and the unavailability of such prized and valuable technology by military means, preventing the creation of free-source project against them. P.S: I am talking about massive energy centres, such as current nuclear facilities. The sole tough of them being free of watch over is unacceptable, as a default, an energy rupture or else would disrupt computer's functions.