Want to watch someone play live music? Want to pay for a painting by a person? Want to buy a game? We are social animals, not some dystopian techno recluses... At least not yet. Read the short story 'the machine stops' even in that grim depiction of total automation there was still interaction and therefore value being exchanged.

Capitalists of either wing could read some books or articles by some of the names listed below.   You could probably just type their names into youtube and get some old tv clip, Milton Friedman being one of the most famous.

Theres always Adam Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations.   Or you could simply look up comparative advantage, just read an explanation of that.  I reckon that covers alot of complaints or pleas for protectionism and why it makes every part of society poorer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Libertarian_theorists



If we could get free energy I could believe in no more money.   But theres always going to be something people cant get and want and barter is too inefficient so theres money even if all people were rich.
I think we already transformed what money means.  It used to be very close to food and to own production was money or wealth, its not ridiculous now that money could relate to more digital type wealth however I think our current money is a bit corrupt hence bitcoin is valid and needed innovation ?  (even if did fail it was a system with merit)

Yeah of course, but think about 2114. You are delusional as hell if you think automated machines will not have automated most of the jobs and you are delusional to think they will break easily. You are also delusional if you think "eureka! it's all solved, lets make all unemployed people machine-repairers", because not everyone is genetically blessed to learn electronics and how to understand and solve mechanical/electronic problems to fix the machines. TONS of people will be left behind without shit nothing to do. In other words: Monetary system will de facto collapse.

You know the saying "Time is money?" As long as time exists, money will exist. Even if everything you could ever want is provided for you, someone will always want it provided to them faster, or be the first in line to get it.

It is there and it's unstopable, can't stop progress.

For all works we are doing today, we were not genetically conditioned to do it. (well... except the oldest profession which is prostitution :p)
But people adapted nevertheless.

The same argument you are saying can be held for job held today that did not existed yesterday.
We were not meant to stay sit before a computer screen all day long looking at numbers.
Not meant to do repeative work in a factory. Not meant to labor all day long under the sun to labour our dried field.

There is not such thing as being "genetically conditioned" to learn or stay dumb.
Our brain always adapted to other tasks unbelievably well. Gosh, I teached basics of html to a 9 years old child in less than a week.

Ignorance is a choice, don't make me pay for it.

That's kinda sad... Would be interesting to look at this kind of an experiment. Considering that Namibia experiments turned out to be largely positive for the economy.

Didn't get at whom you directed the second part of your message.

Same people who decide the correlation between bitcoins and dollars: traders on the market. Someone will say I will pay $ to get this cool thing first, and someone else will say they'll pay $+1.

That implies everyone is of a parasite mentality. Some people keep working even after they retire, or after they become millionaires and have no reason to keep working to earn a living.

To keep working, you need to have a job that meet the need of the population at that time. If everything is being done by robot, there will be no need that can't be done by robot and no job around for human.