> If you can do whatever you want, who is the slave class working more than they need to to service your needs? Obviously that would be the machines. You need

> If you can do whatever you want, who is the slave class working more than they need to to service your needs? Obviously that would be the machines. You need people to maintain those, but less human time is required to produce the same goods. Basic things might get so cheap that they're almost free. > What we lack is a mechanism to allow people to make that rent. Sounds like you want something like a job guarantee. Sure, there is never a lack of useful work that you could force people into. But there is simply not enough work that is essential enough that you could argue, from an economic point of view, that everyone has to work 5 days a week just to earn their right to exist.