why does it need to be a competition in the first place?
If we have automated manufacturing and food production why does the average person really need to do anything?
If we have automated manufacturing and food production why does the average person really need to do anything?
Kinda like Pompeii back in the day?
So long as there is work, the people who have a smaller share always have the opportunity of improving their lot by working harder and smarter than others.
A society with no work is basically one in which everyone lives off their assets, in which wealth primarily comes through inheritance. A society with even more inequality than today, but with far less social mobility.
I hope that isn't your worldview, it sounds lonely.
It's always a competion. That's just life. Darwin has laid that out before pretty clearly.
Furthermore as our society evolves the hierarchy of needs can and should shift to demphasize employment.
What you are describing is the result of industrialized societies needing workers, soon that will not be the case.