The object isn't to have another provide for you. The object is to reduce labor. Simply by removing money, increasing mechanization, and building everything to last we can reduce labor requirements by 50%. That is indisputable.

20 hour work week and you still have everything you got now? Except it wouldn't stop there. Mechanization can be expanded in time to make it where people have to work very little.

A wise man once said that "it is hard to think noble things when one must always have his mind on feeding himself." I paraphrased that a little. The point is that there is a lot of talent out there stuck in a rut that would be freed to be inventive and creative.

People who don't have to work don't just lay on the couch; not if they are mentally healthy and educated & interested in life. They do things that interest them. Sometimes they end up being innovative.

When Linus Torvalds created the Linux kernel I doubt he did so to make lots of money. He did it because he thought it up and was interested in it. When steve Jobs started building computers money wasn't the primary motivator. Success financially was just a means of continuing the project...the kick ass hobby. That's how it is in the beginning for many, many innovative and ground breaking things.

That stuff doesn't happen as much when you are stuck running a forklift 12 hours a day trying to keep the lights on at the house.

In a way we are working at everything bass ackwards and the reason we are is because the way we do things now supports an elite ruling class.