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How are the people supporting the entertainers getting money? By doing their own entertaining?

• neogodless 10y ago
  Yes - that was a big part of my question. Can the masses simple be entertained (a la Wall-E) without contributing anything?!
  • CocaKoala 10y ago
    I'm not certain you understood my question, or perhaps I misunderstood your statement. It seems to me that you're saying a small minority of people will work as entertainers (and presumably get paid for doing so) while another small minority fulfills critical functions that can't be automated, and the majority sits back to be entertained. What I'm not clear on is where the money comes from to pay the entertainers and the critical maintainers, if the majority aren't working. The money can't come from the masses, because the masses aren't employed. Are you suggesting that in this scenario, it's a post-scarcity society, money is never transferred at all, and that's why it works?