Assuming that we aren't living in a Culturesque post scarcity society how do you allocate stuff if economic output is no longer important? I don't think that t

Assuming that we aren't living in a Culturesque post scarcity society how do you allocate stuff if economic output is no longer important? I don't think that there is an easy solution to this, but my gut feeling is that the world is going to get a whole lot uglier if we don't figure it out.