Which is exactly what will happen when the higher paychecks deploy automation everywhere, thus solving the "we need all those people to make stuff" problem. Th

Which is exactly what will happen when the higher paychecks deploy automation everywhere, thus solving the "we need all those people to make stuff" problem. The thing you're envisioning as a happy outcome, that is automation used everywhere and a society living happily above work is too "socialist" and "communal" to come to pass. The huge masses of people would be useless, and left to rot, as are the huge masses of African, Asian, Indian, etc people today.