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Good thing capitalism was voluntary and no war was fought to promote it. Of wait-Most of these ideas would in reality require a massive war, tyranny, and genocide in order to implement. That certainly hasn't stopped the communists in the past though, so it could still be scheduled.
But in theory, the end product could work once all competing interests have accepted their submission to world government run by a corrupt oligarchy.
Even today people don't really need to work. You don't need fucking magical teleporters and duplicators. Today I bet if everyone worked 4 hours you could have most things you ever need in your lifetime without any shortages. With productivity increasing we need even less and less manhours to make the same amount of shit.
This is the thing with capitalism, its really that good, in fact its too good for its own sake: Productivity becomes so high that nobody can afford to consume it. This is why we are discussing this whole basic income thing, we desperately need to increase consumption. So its ironic hearing people say that there isn't enough stuff to go around when its the exact opposite in reality (and has been for some decades or even centuries, I dunno).
Therefore I can imagine in the 22nd century basic income will have become widespread, so that in the 23rd everyone will be receiving a massive basic income, finally in the 24th the whole thing will have become pointless.