[loopfor]

This reminded me of an article in Time (1966) http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,8351...

> By 2000, the machines will be producing so much that everyone in the U.S. will, in effect, be independently wealthy. With Government benefits, even nonworking families will have, by one estimate, an annual income of $30,000-$40,000 (in 1966 dollars). How to use leisure meaningfully will be a major problem...

[herval]

First paragraph of that article is incredibly spot-on! The closing paragraph was also quite prescient, no matter what side of the political parties you root for:

> There are some who gloomily expect a society run by a small elected elite, presiding over a mindless multitude kept happy by drugs and circuses, much as in Huxley's Brave New World