I think you know my views on this Tim, the scarcity is being imposed.
Of course there is still no scarcity for billionaires and trillionaires, but they see it coming, so they hoard capital even more.
The way money works is choking the majority, it has to change.
It has to align with energy, which if we got from source, is free.
We were living on credit, energy credit, taken out from the planet, still to be paid back.
The real deficit reflected by what we call financial debt is an energy deficit to the planet, hence what we see as environmental damage.
Capital is the energy of Earth, taken out.
The natural battery of Earth is showing the first signs of running out.
It can’t be recharged using yet more energy of Earth, it can only be repaid by use of solar energy.
Even if the rich wanted to put it back, they can’t unless they fund solar infrastructure, and it has to be done all around the world.
As for who will work, people work for free when they are happy it is for a good cause.
We will have the choice if/when money is aligned with sunlight, because it will be free, whether we work or not, because sunlight is free.
Working for the money representing the limited capital of Earth, just to make the rich even richer doesn’t make people happy, as we can see.