The reason I want to do more than just live a simple life like that is because I believe this goal promotes human flourishing.
I don't see them as mutually exclusive.
My utopia retires at ~50.
Rule by force is the disease, who and how are symptoms, eh?
Take rule by force off the table, and by default, utopia it is.
So simple only the highest brows can miss it.
With robotics, the math on needed work hours per person to maintain the status quo is around 20k hours.
We would all be working part time, but billionaires need more billions.
What I want to know is, who cleans the toilets once we have all we need?
Without poverty, how do you push that labor off onto someone else?