[ben_w]

I think it's more extractive of wealth from information gradients than anything else. If two corporations do roughly the same thing, the staff switch to whichever pays more while the customers switch to whoever charges less or provides a superior product/service.

> Who’d clean your toilets (or make you coffee, or slaughter your beef) if there is nobody who needs the money to pay for food?

If nobody needs money, then surely everyone has a personal service robot? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryten

[rbanffy]

> If nobody needs money, then surely everyone has a personal service robot

Or, at least, they clean their own toilets.