Thanks, good thoughts.
"It would also be the end of scarcity, which would change all our ideas of profit, loss, and efficiency."
We must remember that the end of scarcity does not mean we have unlimited resources. While our ideas of profit, loss and efficiency are changing they aren't going away. There needs to be more focus on value and values. What are we going to value and how will we quantify value. I think the idea of value based on the total real cost of energy production including externalities. Everything could be valued in kilowatt-hour equivalents. Roughly 12 cents so minimum wage could be 100 kilowatt-hours per hour.
Just spit balling here. Something to think about.
TEK