Tim, taken to conclusion, this more or less is the same outcome as the Bitcoin Kardashev Hinge outcome that I think is pretty cool, literally.

As things stand, businesses and folks still in jobs, are experiencing ever less possibilities of profit, or even breaking even without evermore dodgy practices, like charging for services and goods undelivered.

I still think some kinds of money, the most useful, thus the most valuable, have to become aligned with solar energy in the form of proof of work tokens.

So rather than a gold standard, we might see a solar energy standard associated with money, and that will be really cool, even though it would be the end of all value in capital, which was/is the Grand Energy Ponzi.

It would also be the end of scarcity, which would change all our ideas of profit, loss, and efficiency.

Who cares if things use more power, or are more expensive, if the source of power, producing money is free, used to add value to our planet, adding positively to natural creation, rather than deconstructing natural creation, as we do when all energy is sourced from the materials and other energies of Earth, trapped as capital.

I wonder if it has occured to many that if the natural creation of matter by the sun on Earth is interrupted or even reversed, even for a short time, then the inevitable result is a permanent rise in the temperature of Earth, until the discontinuity can be reversed?

Heat domes, anyone?