>Your premise that if people's needs are met they will do nothing I feel is plain wrong - people will be bored then, and there are other societal pressures that

>Your premise that if people's needs are met they will do nothing I feel is plain wrong - people will be bored then, and there are other societal pressures that can drive people to do, to improve themselves, to be productive. My point wasn't that if people's needs were met, they would do nothing- my point is was that with needs met people wouldn't be forced to choose to either starve or spend the majority of their waking hours working for someone else. And if the profit motive was not the main force driving productivity society, more time and energy can be dedicated to personal pursuits or actual work that 'changes the world' for the better.