> I hope there's a place in the future for both indie work and expensive "blockbuster" content. Certainly. You'll note that as individual expenses go down, gro

> I hope there's a place in the future for both indie work and expensive "blockbuster" content. Certainly. You'll note that as individual expenses go down, group expenses should go down as well since employers will no longer have to cover their employees cost of living. Prices of everything will continue to plummet (as they have been). If anything, they should be able to do more on the same budget. EDIT: You might think "Well who's paying for all those basics? Surely that will imply higher taxes." Compare the cost of a 1GHz CPU today to the cost 10 years ago. The price went down and yet taxes did not play a significant role in that. The basics could be covered by taxes, but they need not be. The price of basics goes down over time naturally as technology advances and builds off of the knowledge and efficiencies of the technology before it. Taxes can be used to accelerate this process, but they are not necessary for it to happen in the first place. Free, clean drinking water was not even a thing a few centuries ago. Now it is everywhere in first world countries. The same should happen with other necessities.