You've just described the post-scarcity economy.

I think of the two possible trajectories as the Star Wars universe and the Star Trek universe. Both have fully automated supply chains through droids/replicator technology. However, in Star Wars, only the elite few have access to that technology. Hence, the economy is still centered around trade and, well, as the title would suggest — wars. In Star Trek, that technology is democratized and made available to everyone to create a world in which money has no meaning, and everyone has access to technology and meeting their basic needs.

It all depends on what kind of society we decide to build from here on out.

Labor might become worthless, but money would still have value derived from ownership of capital (factories and raw materials). A tiny capitalist class would still produce and sell to each other, while the rest of humanity would be left with literally nothing to work with.

Those robots require maintenance, which means spare parts and equipment. Making them requires materials, such as metals and plastic. The guy who owns the mine, isn’t going to hand over the metals for free, which means that robot maintenance won’t be free either.

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Can you expand on this thought using a hypothetical supply chain? Land and resources would still hold monetary value even if the value of human labor has been vanquished.

Feudalism. Which is already about 80% what we have right now. True capitalism is desd

there is a reason the term petrodollar came into use. Without social change it can be disastrous.

*intentionally