Of course, the moneyed psychopaths will (and are) replacing the workers with automation... The best solution is to remove the need for the accounting for Our energy to survive - money. (My definition of money: anything tangible We use to account for the energy We input into a system. This can be trade, barter, work exchange, shells, beads, sticks notched and split, coins (metals), bills (paper), or electronic bits (or anything else used for that purpose).)
The End of (Social) Entropy (article): https://peakd.com/informationwar/@amaterasusolar/the-end-of-entropy
You are exactly right, the love of money is the root of all evil.
However, IF we get back to sound money the difference is minimal as all the money requires energy input, as things currently are some money is just printed and has no energy attached.
Work cannot be faked, money can, though, and this is the foundational problem.
No matter what economic scheme we devise there will be people interested in competition and that requires metrics to measure, they will find them.
It's just human nature, and not necessarily malignant.
I don't think You follow... All money accounts for the energy We add into a system. And irrespective of form - anything tangible We use to account for the energy We input into a system (this can be trade, barter, work exchange, shells, beads, sticks notched and split, coins (metals), bills (paper), or electronic bits (or anything else used for that purpose)) - the psychopaths will do all They can to get the most.
They will not stop at defrauding, stealing, sabotaging, torturing, or killing if They can get away with it. It is a dangerous tool for this very reason.
And it is very archaic a practice. We have had the tech for half a century and more to end the point of accounting for Our energy, on Our vastly abundant planet, but the moneyed psychopaths in control hide it avidly. (Did You know with enough energy We can transmute any element into another? Given the moneyed psychopaths presently own virtually all the "precious" metals, and have the tech to transmute... Gold, silver, platinum can become the new fiat...)
As for "competition..." If Our wealth was available to all of Us, what would We be competing for? (You did know You're a multimillionaire, right? And that They tie You down with money, making You a slave?)
Trusts: The Big Heist Against Humanity (article): https://peakd.com/informationwar/@amaterasusolar/trusts-the-big-heist-against-humanity
Abundance -> Cooperation; Scarcity -> Competition (article): https://peakd.com/informationwar/@amaterasusolar/abundance-cooperation-scarcity-competition
The End of (Social) Entropy (article): https://peakd.com/informationwar/@amaterasusolar/the-end-of-entropy
Bragging rights.
Attention in the breeding game.
World renown.
Any number of things worth competing for outside money.
We could stop exploiting our neighbors' inabilities, though.
Well, yes, We will compete for social currency, that rather is My point - We won't be couch potatoes, but You make it sound as if that is a problem. I suggest that, quite the contrary, that is a high advantage.