Imagine a world where everyone would have access to free* education, free* healthcare, with a form of basic income tied to all people above a certain age(+ half of BI (only) for the 1st child) -> working social safety net - and a healthy lifespan of 80y(100+ altogether).. You get a BI that can cover your basic expenses and you can explore the world, pursue your passions for the next 40y .. or .. have children .. the ultimate solution to population growth(the 2nd one is technology(innovation) which, in a more free, more equal society where everyone could study/invent/take risks without worrying about ending on the street wouldn't fall that much behind, as HN'ers enjoying today's cheap/free tech can tell you) .. we'd be swamped by bad art(multiply what today's corporatocracy is doing to the industry x10) and a trillion dollar travel and leisure industry but even if only 2% of the population - at any given moment - would contribute to society, there would be no problem we couldn't handle, no obstacle we couldn't overcome, no target we couldn't achieve. I can imagine the social status metric to be moved from the m2 of real estate/#of cars you own to contributions to humanity, we are seeing this (in a limited scope) in the academic and tech circles already. Getting the society to a point where not contributing to sciences/art/education/hc etc would be considered a failure(same as many of you (wrongly) consider homeless people to be) .. there is only one problem, today's global regime with tomorrows technology.. we're heading towards a dystopian society with genetically superior class of uebermenchen and the rest..