[IamConservative]

While wealth will continue to expand, there is IMO no guarantee that the free market, which will drive this switch to tech instead of people, will continue to be a benefit for most people and for society as a whole.

I've been leaning toward a future of an automated, information driven world where the concept of market value and wealth no longer exists. By extension, skill, effort and intelligence cannot be applied to change your lot in life. Individuals will be born into their lot in life and not be able to change it.

[Sherman Logan]

It’s nice that somebody is giving some thought to these possibilities.

I doubt the society you posit will ever come about, at least in full. But I think it may be a great deal more difficult to rise, requiring greater skill, effort and intelligence than in the past.

Our economies and cultures have always been based on scarcity, that there is not enough stuff t go around. But what about there a society where there is a great deal of “stuff,” but very few people are needed to produce the stuff?

IOW, most people will be redundant to the economy. So in what sense will they have purpose or meaning?

[Resolute Conservative]

Like the panacea in Star Trek where there is no money and everybody is a genius working on plasma drives or tacheon emissions that require Ph.D+ level thinking.