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Personal hobbies aren't valuable to a society, they're valuable to individuals. A guy playing video games 6 hours a day is probably okay with it, but it's not contributing anything to society. There's an argument to be made for people to be guaranteed time to themselves for their well being, but the idea that an economy can function off of picnics and parties is stupid. Automation is not going to make work obsolete, it'll just shift the economy in a different direction. Just like what happened in industrial revolution 200 years ago.