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>Technological singularity happens
>Earth ends up in a universal custodianship where all jobs have been outsourced to automation and AI.
>Humans spend their lives pampered and living in utopia with nothing to worry about
>Life now has no meaning or purpose.
>Everyone is depressed and miserable.
>Rates of homicide and suicide go through the roof and behavior is erratic and totally unpredictable.

Is there any Sci-Fi dealing with this or a similar concept? Does this sound like a good theme for a book?

>> No.10574731

The backstory of Legend of the Galactic Heroes is basically this.

>> No.10574733

That's the reason they give in The Matrix for why their simulated world isn't a perfect utopia.

>> No.10574756

>you need work or else you’ll kill yourself
Biggest meme since forever

>> No.10575297

Childhoods End by Arthur C. Clark has some of those elements.

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>>10574712
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, is more or less about this in an internet autist kind of way, lots of gore shit though so if you don't like that stuff ignore it
https://mogami.neocities.org/files/prime_intellect.pdf