Or should humans look forward to toiling hours away doing work they find little to not meaning in?

You don’t understand alienation if you’re talking about work in such a manner. Your miscomprehension allows you to take such an antisocial position on laboring for others without exploitation, the comm in Communism stands for Community. I shouldn’t have to describe socially divided labor as being the true power of production over Capital.

Humanity proceeds only as a species through technology. That’s why we are measured by our inventions. Fire; the wheel; agriculture; architecture; the internet; computers; etc.

Extremely eurocentric evaluations of “progress”. It frankly isn’t true, which is why the Euros have been trashing the planet for 5 centuries. Technological determinism hasn’t proven itself useful, we are Marxists.

Humanity has always striven to do less work and that is the core foundation of a lot of technological progression. “How can we preform more, by doing less?” That’s the entire point of humanity moving from a 12-14 hour workday as peasants, to 10-12 hours in the early industrial revolution, to 8-10 hours currently. Saying that we should not aim to do less work is bizarre.

From redsails:

Sadly for socialists, twilight encroaches on daylight as much as it pierces night. A combination of neo-colonial looting, the aforementioned welfare policies, and a bit of clever rhetoric has given capitalism truly extraordinary resilience. [26] By granting concessions, capitalists in the West avoided ever being dethroned, and their liberal ideologues then proceeded to persuade workers in the West (and the world) that “retiring early” and “living off of passive income” (becoming a landlord, or a shareholder) are in fact viable and honourable dreams within the reach of everyone. Now that “everyone” can throw their savings into an investment account and become a little bit of a capitalist, Stalin’s plea to lionize and empower workers arouses pity, fear, or scorn.

Countless people hailing from all over the world have now been able to taste what it feels like to belong to a leisurely aristocracy that can drown itself in novelties while barely lifting a finger, and this arrangement is set up in such a way that suburbanites don’t even have to burden themselves with learning the names of the slaves servicing such a lifestyle! The “American Dream” has extremely wide appeal, and not only among Germans of the 1930s. It’s a mistake to underestimate it. Liberalism gets credit for policies fought for by workers in the same way that business owners get credit for the products made by workers, leaving workers (on whom everyone depends) with the same social standing as beggars. As a result, workers begin to attempt to rid themselves of this pitiful condition as soon as possible. The fact that many today offer up “anti-work” as a pro-worker slogan is a stark index of how far we’ve strayed from Marx’s conceptualization of labour as “not only a means of life, but life’s prime want.” [27]

Quote mining Marx but avoiding the parts of Capital where he talks about humans laboring because that’s what we do.

And I’ll answer the two other replies here, you were the one who brought up generalized AI, which is pure science fiction, as way to free humans from labor. If an artificial intelligence actually existed, it would necessarily enter social relations with humans and could be considered exploited by your “Communists”.

When would we ever have a world where there’s not enough things to get done? If we free from “janitorial duties” as you so much lament, shouldn’t we use that surplus labor in a “progressive” field? Since the level of technology you expect to free us completely of labor is basically mastery of the universe, I’m going to call it utopian Idealism. It’s unhelpful if people think that’s what we Communists are about, and we only attract increasingly bourgeois audiences.