“a possible future in which technology replaces jobs, but also drives down the cost of living....”
How about an approach to living in the actual present?
As automation replaces unskilled workers at $15/hr the obvious question becomes what do you do with all of these unskilled ....persons. There are a certain percentage who are indolent, another percentage who are ineducable (which overlaps with indolent). How do you prevent them from creating more ineducable, and thus indolents and then criminals who seek more ?
With nothing but time on their hands, what do yu do with them?