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> how does society / monetary systems change? What comes next? UBI at best is a stopgap.

Money is an abstraction used to manage scarce resources. The fact that resources are scarce is never going to change, because we live in a world with finite space, mass and usable energy.

UBI does not seem incompatible with that. It's just a system (on top of the abstraction of money) to allocate scarce resources. Why do you think it is "at best a stopgap"?

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I disagree on your point that resources will remain scarce. That's true of earth, but long-term, which is really what I'm getting at, that's not the case. We aren't even that far off from mining nearby asteroids; give humanity 100 years, and who knows what we'll be up to.

UBI is a stopgap in that it just extends the current system by giving away money; eventually we'll need to move past 'money' somehow.

Asteroids don't provide clean air and water.

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