I was told freedom from wage slavery would be achieved through a UBI. Now I think it may be sound money.

Automation is making our lives cheaper. And therefore less and less work is needed to maintain our standard of living. One day, that amount of work will be negligible as everything will be done by machines and only those will work who want to work, e.g. people with interesting, creative jobs like artists, scientists etc.

It used to be the general consensus that this would be achieved by means of a UBI.

But that's problematic, because the UBI is based on centralized wealth distribution. It relies on the existence of a state, which frankly I don't think is something we can take for granted.

So can we have a better future, free from wage slavery, but one that doesn't rely on centralized wealth distribution at the same time?

If the automation and the increase in productivity over the past decades had benefited us all equally, the average work week today would be maybe 8 hours and not 40; it is inflation that stole that from us.

Last year I discovered sound money and having studied it, I'm wondering if that can get us there instead. In a world that has sound money, the growth of the economy, the increase of productivity through automation translate to one unit of currency being worth more and more, and therefore every holder of money gets wealthier and benefits from this increase. A socialist dream, but achieved through non-socialist, coercion-free, decentralized means.

A satoshi is all you need. If you can't buy, let's say, a house for it, just wait for the increase in productivity to get high enough that you can. Or bite your teeth (maybe in some temporary wage slavery) and wait a bit longer, so you can buy your dream home for 0.5 sat, and keep the other 0.5 sat to retire on.

Someone said the ultimate value of 1 BTC is infinity (= all energy of the Universe that the human civilization can harness) divided by 21,000,000. Makes perfect sense.