I wrote: No one will tax you, or feel jealous of your sold-gold house. >
I meant "solid-gold house." I doubt gold is strong enough for this purpose. I suppose it might be a steel structure with a thick layer of gold in the living spaces and outdoor walls. I doubt anyone would want to live in such a monstrosity but if anyone does, the robots will build it. The whole concept of free markets, wages and capitalism will be long > forgotten. > Communism and socialism will also be forgotten. Money itself will probably cease to exist. Human labor will be as distant to people in the year 5000 as hunter-gatherers and Egyptian pyramid builders are to us. The "work ethic"; and notion that you are immoral if you do not work for your bread and make a contribution; or the idea that a "free market" is essential to human freedom and dignity will seem utterly alien to people in the future. Only a handful of ancient history professors will know that such views were common in our era, and that we disputed such things, and even threatened a nuclear war between the forces of communism and capitalism in the 1960s. People will look back at these things the way we look back at the Egyptians putting the mummies of dead pharaohs into pyramids. They will wonder why we were so worked up about such outlandish concerns. - Jed
