[notahacker]

>There's no "capitalistic system", unless you consider "economic freedom" to be a "system".

"Economic freedom" is merely an emotive label applied to certain aspects of the current system, which is defined as much by people being unable to use underutilized economic resources without contracting with other parties as it is by there being relatively few restrictions on the nature of contracts and associations that might be made. An economic system in which people didn't have to contract with "owners" in order to use their surplus land or equipment or fork their codebase is arguably more "free" (though in many respects likely to be less productive). Trivially and infinitely replicable software is substituting for elements of expensive physical capital as much as for human labour, and the necessity and defensibility of IP is a concept subject to rather more challenge that the concept of working for a living.

I'd agree with you that the author is well wide of the mark on the assumption the useful services we can provide other humans are being automated away. That argument, along with labour-based theories of surplus value, and the idea of self-sufficient communities feels dated rather than futuristic now.