I just finished reading a Sci-Fi novel, written in about 1938-9, where in a ‘Future Society’, 2085 in the book, people were given money by the government to ‘consume’ goods and services. that was in addition to any money you made from your job if you had one. People could live off the government gratuity and be artists, musicians, etc, or earn a paycheck doing whatever they were skilled at..................
But where does the govt get the money?
I remember that book. The really poor people had to golf constantly or walk and tear up shoes, consuming constantly, while the wealthy people could literally do nothing.
A leisure world for artists everywhere.