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Not to mention Milton Friedman and Richard Nixon.
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With increasing automation most types of jobs won't need human workers any more, so there would be no wages. I expect there would still be a wide range of occupations - making artisan bread, beer, handmade clothes, toys, amateur dramatics, things that are now currently hobbies will become respected activities. Perhaps some sort of money will change hands; people might accumulate scrip, or likes, or social credit if they make good wine, or cupcakes, or shoes. The stuff people will value will be stuff people have made themselves - but sometimes the automated products would be better quality, or more nutritious, and essentially free. The most respected individuals would be those with high social credit scores.

Heinlein realised this back in the fifties - in a fully-automated post-scarcity future, most human-made products would be pretty crude when compared to machine-made, manufactured goods - but these hand-made, artisan products would be far more valued by consumers.
You'll always need plenty of people to work though........... emergency services, restaurants, utility companies, hospitals, road crews, armed forces, farmers, construction, mechanics, teachers, carpet fitters, tree surgeons, publicans, park keepers, roadsweepers, painters, legal bods, prison warders, politicians, zoo keepers, civil engineers...........................
 
Become a cartoon character, go to the old movie "Jungle Burger". A quote from it: "What's the matter with you? Aint you seen a queen with fourteen tits before?"
 
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