Has there been talk of a post-work economy before?
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There have been chats related to a post-work society at least since the industrial revolution.
Paul Lafarge, for instance, wrote an essay called the Right to be Lazy (1880, published 1883):
The essay polemicizes heavily against then-contemporary liberal, conservative, Christian and even socialist ideas of work. Lafargue criticizes these ideas from a Marxist perspective as dogmatic and ultimately false by portraying the degeneration and enslavement of human existence when being subsumed under the primacy of the "right to work", and argues that laziness, combined with human creativity, is an important source of human progress.
Earlier in the 19th, Charles Fourier "characterized poverty (not inequality) as the principal cause of disorder in society, and he proposed to eradicate it by sufficiently high wages and by a 'decent minimum' for those who were not able to work."
These ideas and others made their way into more contemporary chatter. For instance In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935) by Bertrand Russel, or more recently The Abolition of Work (1985) by post-left anarchist Bob Black.
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Marx discussed his concern that a postindustrial society would, through automation, result in high unemployment. Much has changed since his time and the remedy of much free time to pursue largely cultural interests have lost validity. Most countries have a fairly large percentage of the work force on monetary stimulants with no indication that this remedy is satisfying to the recipient or respected by society.
A problem exists with an elite but small workforce supporting a portion of the potential workforce with inadequate skills.
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You are asking about the Luddites. They were the first to notice that the robots would take all of the real jobs and put everyone in desk jobs. According to Wikipedia there were pre-Luddite movements going back to 1675. The main Luddite movement was in the 1810s.
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Arguably R.U.R and Metropolis are descriptions of post-work societies, and there a innumerable science fiction stories (Marching Morons) et. al. where "work" no longer has the same meaning. Communism assumes that the proletariat will create a state where work is no longer required.
But if you're looking for the term/concept of a post-work society in the modern sense, I can't find anything earlier than this December 2000 Guardian article prior to that, the term "post work" seems to refer to escort services, and I choose not to read any further.
Google permits you to search for a term or set of terms and limit and sort by date. I used
"post-work" "post work" post work society
"Post scarcity" may also be relevant.
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