Emails are piling in. Let me clarify one thing. I wasn’t proposing, even hypothetically, that only a handful of people work and the rest of us spend our time around the pool (or reading the Corner). No, what I guess I’m getting at it is this: Couldn’t you have a system extending pretty much the trends we’re already seeing in which a huge proportion of the society are in service-area and artsy-fartsy jobs and a tiny number of “productive” workers do the same amount of work it took hundreds of people to do just a few generations ago. After all, a couple guys with tractors and combines do the work of hundreds of field hands today. Anyway, economics isn’t my strong point but it just seems to me that if productivity keeps soaring that the old arguments about importing labor and/or increasing the birthrate change. That’s what I’m really getting at (though I’d love to discuss the Nanobot Androids all day). Am I missing something on that point?