We're living at the bottom of a gravity well, so we don't pay for air. Once upon a time, even economists thought that automation could make food, shelter, and

We're living at the bottom of a gravity well, so we don't pay for air. Once upon a time, even economists thought that automation could make food, shelter, and routine health care too cheap to meter; in such a world would we then be interacting with each other —as the XIX aristocracy did?— chiefly via shared interests and hobbies? Lagniappe: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/downton-abbey-effect-british-aristocratic-matches-american-business-heiresses-late https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/downton-abbey-effect-british-...