What Is It for?

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, 3D Printing and expert systems of all kinds are revolutionizing manufacturing.. within a generation it will no longer be necessary for anyone to work, not even professions like lawyers, accountants, architects.. so.. who will buy what the machines make? Our current economic system creates a paradox so it is, in fact, useless... For millennia you had to work to eat.. but what do you do when there is no work and an abundance of food (actually goods of all kinds)..? we have no Plan-B either.. or do we?

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