It feels like part of this may be some needed mental shift from a scarcity mindset to a prosperity mindset. My mind always goes to the very optimistic, Utopian

It feels like part of this may be some needed mental shift from a scarcity mindset to a prosperity mindset. My mind always goes to the very optimistic, Utopian world in Star Trek, where humans have identified that we can afford for people to stop working for the purpose of survival (the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs) and instead start working just for the personal challenge and growth. Not saying we're there yet, but with so many jobs rapidly becoming obsolete by machines, it seems to me to be the direction we're going. Rather than meaninglessness, joblessness, poverty, homelessness, I hope society can shift into this paradigm that automation could mean the exact opposite: empowerment to more freedom. This is probably a very scary perspective for many capitalists! The majority of people actually do want to work, they just don't want to work for the sake of work itself. A huge benefit of capital is that it means we don't really have to trust each other at a high level, because fundamentally our incentives all align around survival which money is a tool to survive. One day maybe we can make a world where there is more trust in each other; that just about everyone wants to do the best that we can with the exception of a small number of malignant personality disorders that is the minority. This new trust will enable some amazing doors to open up.