> Remove the need to struggle for a basic comfortable life Literally anyone who was alive during the 19th century would say that we’ve done this already. > Th

> Remove the need to struggle for a basic comfortable life Literally anyone who was alive during the 19th century would say that we’ve done this already. > The points you make have no relevance in a world where you don't need oil workers, arctic fisherman, day laborers, and so on. My point was that the oil workers and arctic fishermen are already richer than many of the Ivy Leaguers, yet occupy a lower social status because our elite status games are decoupled from material wealth. Making material wealth even less relevant to daily life will only intensify these trends. > Human nature doesn't enter into it; when anyone can travel anywhere, can replicate the same food or goods the wealthy elite currently enjoy exclusively, there is no practical separation between them. No, it just means those luxuries will cease to function as markers of status. It doesn’t mean markers of status will go away. Most markers of elite status have little to do with money because money is already too easy to get.