"[T]here may simply be not enough important things to do to keep everyone busy." More and more these past few years I think of a favorite old science fiction story by Frederik Pohl called "The Midas Plague." All production is done by robots. Production has become so, uh, productive that humans spend all their effort just wearing out everything made by the robots. "Poor" people must live in giant mansions…
The downside of the utopia is the sheer amount of things that the robots can produce. Then what do you do with all that stuff?? That is a theme of the story "Midas Plague" by Frederik Pohl. "The Midas Plague" (originally published in Galaxy in 1954). In this new world of cheap energy, robots are overproducing the commodities enjoyed by mankind. So now the "poor" are forced…
…forgotten it. Here's a link for those interested: http://www.e-reading.co.uk/chapter.php/149381/8/Sheckley_-_C... It reminds me of "And Then There Were None": http://www.abelard.org/e-f-russell.php And "The Midas Plague": http://www.e-reading.co.uk/bookreader.php/1010251/Pohl_-_The...
There is a short scifi story from the 50s called the Midas Plague by Frederik Pohl which deals with this in a very silly way. It's available through archive.org https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1954-04/Galaxy_195...
This Fred Pohl book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas_World has a short story The Midas Plague in it where the problem is that post the development of cheap fusion resources are so abundant and production so efficient that keeping the economy working requires that people stay on a treadmill of…
“可能根本就没有那么多重要的事要做，能让所有人都忙起来。”这几年我越来越频繁地想起弗雷德里克·波尔的一篇我最喜欢的老科幻小说，名叫《迈达斯瘟疫》。所有生产都由机器人完成。生产力变得太……呃，太高效了，以至于人类得拼尽全力去消耗掉机器人制造的所有东西。“穷人”必须住在巨大的豪宅里……
"[T]here may simply be not enough important things to do to keep everyone busy." More and more these past few years I think of a favorite old science fiction story by Frederik Pohl called "The Midas Plague." All production is done by robots. Production has become so, uh, productive that humans spend all their effort just wearing out everything made by the robots. "Poor" people must live in giant mansions…
高度相关：波尔的《迈达斯瘟疫》<https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1954-04/Galaxy_19...>
Highly relevant: Pohl's "The Midas Plague" <https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1954-04/Galaxy_19...>
乌托邦的阴暗面在于机器人能生产的东西实在太多了。那你该怎么处理这么多玩意儿？？这就是弗雷德里克·波尔的小说《迈达斯瘟疫》的主题。《迈达斯瘟疫》（最初于 1954 年发表在《Galaxy》杂志上）。在这个廉价能源的新世界里，机器人极度过剩地生产着人类享受的日用品。于是现在“穷人”被迫……
The downside of the utopia is the sheer amount of things that the robots can produce. Then what do you do with all that stuff?? That is a theme of the story "Midas Plague" by Frederik Pohl. "The Midas Plague" (originally published in Galaxy in 1954). In this new world of cheap energy, robots are overproducing the commodities enjoyed by mankind. So now the "poor" are forced…
……忘掉了。给感兴趣的人贴个链接：http://www.e-reading.co.uk/chapter.php/149381/8/Sheckley_-_C... 它让我想起了《一个都不留》：http://www.abelard.org/e-f-russell.php 以及《迈达斯瘟疫》：http://www.e-reading.co.uk/bookreader.php/1010251/Pohl_-_The...
…forgotten it. Here's a link for those interested: http://www.e-reading.co.uk/chapter.php/149381/8/Sheckley_-_C... It reminds me of "And Then There Were None": http://www.abelard.org/e-f-russell.php And "The Midas Plague": http://www.e-reading.co.uk/bookreader.php/1010251/Pohl_-_The...
50年代有一篇短篇科幻叫《迈达斯瘟疫》，是弗雷德里克·波尔写的，里面用一种非常搞笑荒谬的方式探讨了这个问题。archive.org 上能看到：https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1954-04/Galaxy_195...
There is a short scifi story from the 50s called the Midas Plague by Frederik Pohl which deals with this in a very silly way. It's available through archive.org https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1954-04/Galaxy_195...
弗雷德·波尔的这本书 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas_World 里收录了短篇小说《迈达斯瘟疫》，里面的痛点在于廉价可控核聚变发展起来后，资源极其丰富，生产效率太高，以至于为了维持经济运转，人们必须像在跑步机上一样不停地……
This Fred Pohl book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas_World has a short story The Midas Plague in it where the problem is that post the development of cheap fusion resources are so abundant and production so efficient that keeping the economy working requires that people stay on a treadmill of…