There has to be a customer base with the ability to purchase. So many disruptive changes coming, and so many of them will reduce employment. It’s very unsettling.
It’s interesting. It’ll break one of two ways: either we’ll be freed up for creative pursuits (Star Trek) or we’ll have a permanent population of lay abouts (Judge Dredd). Either way we’re going to have to figure out how to make things work in a world where we honestly don’t need most of the population to be doing anything other than consume.
Many saw this age of human unemployment coming ages ago. Technology is going to replace most humans from work. Money will be scarce to too many and become useless to production.