We should really just go back to the Technology that Nikola Tesla created over 100 years ago. Free wireless power for your home and car transmitted by towers from any distance. Powered by the Earths magnetic field. Then we wouldn't even have to have this debate. Free power would release humanity from the drudgery of life, from the toil of labor.
what?
Free?
transmitted by towers from
any distance?
If that was possible back then, why don't you do it now? You could be famous, rich, faster horses, younger women, better whiskey.
But, let us turn to boredom. Life with no toil, and no rewards for that, is boring. Teenagers tend to burn things down, etc.
And the notion is very real. The futurists, especially in Japan already see that we need to come up with a solution to the horror of nothing to do and nothing to strive for. They see a world that can support 2/3 of the populations by the good works of 1/3. It is sort of Star Trek thinking, alas.
In Japan they are thinking only about 1/2 the population is needed to maintain the standard of living for ALL, in the age of Informed Robots.
What does the other half do with themselves, all day? Idle minds and the works of demons.
A life of leisure, without giant piles of money to throw around, is a cage from which you watch the HAVES, the ones with something to do, and the travel perks, etc.
It is against our genetics to do anything but toil.. It is against our nature to support the worthless.