There is no need to have a massive infrastructure system with large inefficient processes making ineffective drugs or vehicles, saddling consumers with high cost of living and complicated lives. The 'benefits' to a large [per capita] economy is the production of more jobs and a milking of those who can afford to purchase more goods and more luxurious goods.
However, the poor are hit as low quality or simple or efficient goods are often replaced or repressed. The creation of numerous inefficient jobs leads to economic 'depression' or loss of economic density as the effectiveness of industry and the budget sags. There may be economic deflation, loss in employment density, loss in quality of life, substantial increases in cost of living without corresponding quality of life improvements, or reduction in quality of workmanship.
Having an economy that produces much more efficient systems, or more durable products with fewer sales, will indeed produce fewer jobs per production. However, they can afford to have more productions. Need for jobs should fuel this economy, not need for goods. By trying to meet the demand for jobs and for growth by producing ever more weak-batch/filler economy, we are degrading our economy and degrading our society.
We can do more to support people's desire to work and their quality of life by stimulating curiosity-based education programs. We can replace necessary work with robotics and give people the opportunity to be artisans, farmers, engineers, technicians, inventors, all such things.
Incorporating a hydrogen economy to help perform all laborious tasks, humans will be left in the dust. Robotics will produce the majority of goods, 3D printers will do much technical assembly. Miners and technicians can procure goods. Computerized hydroponics can grow our food and maglev trainsets can ferry goods about. Regional distribution centers and internet commerce can replace the majority of retail.
People can be free to play more sports. A working man's dollar can go 6 times farther because he has 5 robots to back him up. The state can incorporate some of these technologies and industries to regulate the market and corporations. Humans can begin a lifetime job of construction, which robots are less able to perform, social sphere and servicework including internet salesmanship/education, certain medical guidance, counseling and education, artistic expression [your marketing department], botany and farming, media and information analysis, and engineering and technicianship to build design monitor and maintain the many robots, machines, and their products.
One difficulty is the transition period between conventional capitalism and the age of economic infinity, from free energy and boundless efficiency.
"What is retiring? Play is productive and my life is play. Education is entertaining, and entertainment is play. What is getting a job? I am an apprentice at this place where they do cool stuff. I hang out there most of the day because I enjoy it and the people there. My counselor and parents referred me to the place, and I liked it. I'm glad we made it." -American born in 2002.The 3rd world can be mobilized easily into this niche. With limitless energy it should be easy to acquire the energy and capital required to construct many things and pieces of infrastructure. Locals tired of starving and hungry for vision and jobs will leap on board appropriately designed and purposed programs to help them build buildings and hydroponics systems, learn basic medical techniques and distribute antibiotic silver colloid made in the lab in town. Carbon microtubes and silver colloid can filter seawater into drinking water.
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