Science Fiction writers are always ahead of the curve about the future and they rarely miss their marks.

Most of them write about a credit based system where you get credits(sort of debit cards) for work that you already do.

No money-- just labor, then credit marks to buy stuff.

Which means people can work as little or as much as they want depending on what they want out of life.


But for that to work, the basics need to be guarenteed and governments need to be the main employer.

Already--with the technology of today--a lot of people are kept working by government and big business just so they can have something to do.

They are not really needed.

In the future most people are not going to be needed to work for the things a Nation needs to care for it's people.

The Communists used to joke:

"We pretended to work and the government pretended to pay us"

Yet things still got done. Needs were still met. Most people were content.

And all those former Communist states were better off then, than they are now