Oscar Wilde thought hard work "the refuge" of those with nothing better to do while he envisaged a society of "cultivated leisure" as machines performed the necessary and unpleasant tasks. Karl Marx's dream was of state-regulated general production that allowed liberated workers to "hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner" without the drudgery of being tied to one job. The 19th-century socialist activist William Morris advocated for more pleasurable work, believing that once the profit motive of the factory had been abolished, less necessary labour would led to a four-hour day. So Elon Musk's suggestion to Rishi Sunak that society could reach a point where "no job is needed" and "you can do a job if you want a job … but the AI will do everything" revives a debate on the issue of how we work that has long been discussed. Yet a world without work, experts question, may be more dystopian than utopian.