Assuming AI and robotics eventually take over the majority of production and services, including physical labor and coordination through autonomous agent systems, do you see a structural risk to the traditional wage → income → purchasing power → access loop? If human labor becomes economically marginal, but production capacity remains high, does that destabilize the price discovery mechanism that markets rely on? In that scenario, income would no longer be broadly earned through labor participation. So how would access to goods be mediated? Would it require large-scale redistribution mechanisms like universal basic income, or even more centralized allocation systems? And do you see any long-term risk that programmable money (CBDCs) tied to carbon credits, travel quotas, or consumption thresholds, could shift allocation from market-based price signals to administratively defined rules? In other words, could extreme automation unintentionally push economies toward a kind of post-scarcity collectivism, not ideologically driven, but structurally driven by technology? How do you think about that possibility?

Well put. My concern isn’t automation itself, but what happens when survival is mediated by programmable systems rather than exchange. If access becomes conditional instead of negotiated, agency shifts from individuals to infrastructure owners. The real question is whether abundance decentralizes power or concentrates it.

They are not even hiding their intentions anymore...

If AI + robotics automate most of the economy, production, logistics, services, even decision-making through autonomous agent frameworks, human labor becomes structurally irrelevant. Once labor no longer determines income, the wage → purchasing power → access loop collapses. To prevent mass unemployment and demand breakdown, governments and central powers would step in. UBI. Direct resource distribution. State-managed provisioning. But distribution wouldn’t remain neutral. Through programmable digital money aka CBDCs. Spending could be restricted, capped, expired, or conditioned. Add carbon credit systems, mobility quotas, consumption thresholds. Energy usage limited. Travel capped. Purchases filtered. Access tied to compliance or social scoring. Allocation shifts from price signals to administrative rules. It would be automation-driven post-scarcity collectivism, where production is abundant, but access is programmable. The real risk isn’t poverty. It’s an economy where "freedom" depends on permissions.