Right, also there are just some things that arent capable of being mass produced. While the Dutch are good at making new beach front property, there are limitations and differences in desirability of location. If trips to Mars suddenly become a thing, there may just be physical resource constraints preventing moving 8 billion people to mars and back for their vacation. Post scarcity on everything seems a bit far fetched.

Lobotomite

A little too on the nose, perhaps.  The best scifi doesn't spell things out so explicitly.

Some questions arise:  if time and attention are the only things with value, how do the rich become rich or stay rich?

Is it because they were endowed with ownership of the AI resources?  In that case, the valuable resources will not just be time and attention, but time and attention that can be converted into maintaining control and suppressing revolutionary fervor.

the_stacker_muse

econ

You Shall Own Nothing, Have Everything and Be Unhappy (X, Nic Carter)

denlillaapan

A little too on the nose, perhaps.  The best scifi doesn't spell things out so explicitly.

Some questions arise:  if time and attention are the only things with value, how do the rich become rich or stay rich?

Is it because they were endowed with ownership of the AI resources?  In that case, the valuable resources will not just be time and attention, but time and attention that can be converted into maintaining control and suppressing revolutionary fervor.