Molecular Beam Epitaxy, 3d Printing, and Nano Technology have developed so that we now have Elemental Creation Technology. Most anything you would want can be produced in replicators and provided to you at very little cost.
Robots deliver you 200 lbs of groceries each week, and they load them into the correct places in your cupboards and refrigerator.
You don't have to wash clothes, as each quarter robots deliver you a big pile of new ones, along with weekly underwear packets.
You are delivered a new car every quarter. And each quarter a robot helicopter removes your house, while another one hovers ready to install your new one.
Using the power of the sun, CO2 is collected back from the air and converted into gasoline. Then while you sleep, robots come out and top of the tanks of all of your vehicles.
You can get boats and airplanes. And everything is recycled down to the atomic level.
The only things which cost much money are those bearing designer brand names. Its not that this stuff really costs any more to produce, its just that the appeal of the name is largely in the social status, and that is derived from the advertising. Advertising still costs money.
So what kinds of jobs will there still be?
Preachers, Prostitutes, Pimps, Pawn Brokers, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Prison Guards, Police, Probations and Parole Officers, Motivational Speakers, Recovery Program Leaders, Financial Literacy and Investment Advisors, and Grave Diggers.
And what becomes of the majority of people whom this leaves completely out of the economy?
What types of arguments are deployed to legitimate such an unworkable system?
Traditional Family Values, Anti-Feminism, Libertarian Anti-Government Anti-Tax, Social Darwinism, Religious Fundamentalism, Motivationalism and Financial Literacy?
(And of course, how much different is this from the present state of affairs, and what are the things which make it completely unworkable?)
SJG
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