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?