I don't know how far it will get anyone, but I like to think that craftsmanship will be greatly valued. I truly enjoy things that someone made by hand. The qua

I don't know how far it will get anyone, but I like to think that craftsmanship will be greatly valued. I truly enjoy things that someone made by hand. The quality isn't even always important. I buy chests and trunks and shop-built tools even when they're not particularly good quality. I enjoy them, they're unique, and they have a story that you can sometimes decipher from the tooling marks and clues left in the wood. I think such things will always fetch a premium, and perhaps when robots can take care of all the immediate issues--manufacturing, delivery, food production, whatever--then we will see a sort of reversal and people will start to pursue some more intimate, small-scale creation. Off the top of my head, I can think of quite a number of things I enjoy that robots can't provide for me (yet?): home-made baked goods, pasture-raised eggs, hand-created furniture/kitchen items/artwork, learning, creativity (with a personal story, especially!), well-trained animals, etc. That said, I'm not a typical consumer, and those things I'm interested in are also things I am interested in producing myself. Still, I would not be surprised to see a barter type of economy spring up alongside a basic income.