Comment by howunfortunate

My point does not require equal distribution.

Two things are true at once: (1) wealth distribution has become less equal and (2) the poor of today are far, far, far richer than ever before in history in absolute terms. When the abundance line goes vertical, even the scraps from the table are meaty.

And if cognitive labor becomes ~free don't expect physical labor to automatically be valuable. The bottleneck for physical automation is, at the end of the day, cognitive.

None of this is an argument FOR inequality btw. Just saying that distribution of resources and total resources are two different things.