humans like to find purpose. Space trucking is certainly more honorable and purposeful than doing nothing, waiting for death.
Idk man the majority of people (including me) are perfectly fine just doing leisure activities everyday. You underestimate how hedonistic people can be.
I encourage you to read about the rat utopia. In such a society, that's your fate - death. People without purpose in a utopia wither and die. While I'm sure there would be exceptions, eventually your kind is much more likely to self sort, exclude themselves from breeding, and die out. Either way, short term or long term, that's more than likely your fate in such a society.
Random video. I didn't watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgGLFozNM2o
If you had the choice to do anything you wanted, in a post-scarcity world. Would you... Just have fun and enjoy life until the day you die? Or become a trucker that moves boxes around from point A to point B? And before you mention it, of course there will be some weirdo that enjoys trucking "as a hobby". But that is the exception, and it is extremely unlike to be able to find that many people will rather work hard as a trucker vs do something else thats more fun and simulating.
To give you some perspective, more than 9% of all jobs in the United States are transportation. You need a whole lot of volunteers lol.
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