Service jobs are the best jobs and what we are designed for. Chimps check for nits in each others fur, grooming each other for ages.
Humans, once we have escaped the need to man a factory or cubicle, will go back to grooming each other.
You scratch your back and I'll scratch yours; hey presto, everyone has a job, other than the usual unemployable who find it difficult to work out how to do a decent massage, haircut, toenail trim, makeup application etc.
There will be a tax issue with people becoming resentful of having to scratch some government bludger's back half the time and only getting a half scratch in return. People will have to scratch their own back to avoid paying taxes to the government. Or, they might not bother with telling the government that they are scratching each other's backs.
Government spivs, hangers-on and bludgers will have to get real jobs, scratching other people's backs instead of just hanging around doing nothing and getting free back scratches.
That will be an excellent outcome of the cyberspace revolution. With calculators costing almost nothing these days, and other things getting cheaper, government bludgers can collect less revenue, though production of other things keeps expanding to fill the void so taxes continue to increase.
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