[skeledrew]

Work is at the foundation of human civilization. And continuously tooling and automating it away is what had allowed civilization to progress to where it is today.

The world can work pretty much as it did before civilization: people went out to get what they needed, little to no fuss. Except instead of climbing a few fruit trees or hunting a mammoth, now one can go to a resource distribution machine (generic term I've coined for a "vending" machine), insert a resource card (not debit/credit card) because resource usage still needs to be tracked to ensure efficient distribution, and carry on with life. Machines do all the provisioning, etc in the background just as nature provisions fruit on trees and edible animals.