Dreher got into the idea of the post-scarcity, post-work world in his own gormless fashion, so I figure we can do it too.
I've thought about this one a lot and have written some hard and soft fiction on the topic (which I am threatening to unleash on this thread as a punitive measure), but have no real answers beyond "how it will play out will seem completely deterministic and intuitive after the fact". Before I let you all hash the concept out, though, I thought I'd post one of the comments from the above article that hits pretty close to the mark by my standards: