3. Competition Will be Fiercer (the baseline for status will increase) given how the gap between top/bottom will enlarge, we'll enter a point where (despite the counter-argument that robots/AI/etc. will make us more productive with less effort) I certainly think we'll either work more or simply do more "productive" stuff we're a mimetic species where the most common behaviors are often copied from the top, what we see those who have perceptibly better results doing is what the rest will want to do as well also as another example, we may go back in history and think that even though we certainly work less than farmers in the 1700s-1800s - we still work the same or even more than people 30, 40, 50 years ago this happens because as the baseline to what being high-status is increases, the incentives to do more also increases - so competitiveness will increase, likely exponentially of course, all of this will also cause a lot of people to become lazier (but at the competitive levels, it will just cause surge imo)