A fascinating critique and assessment! But you leave me with one big question: Once AGI agents can successfully replicate the work for which humans are paid, what will become of all the unemployed humans? Especially since--with a zero-sum money system like ours, the profits from all these fully automated enterprises will flow into ever fewer hands. And what if there are no humans left who can afford to buy the resulting products and services? Perhaps all these fully automated enterprises will be obliged to focus on manufacturing and marketing commodities that only other fully automated enterprises (like governments and corporations) can afford to purchase--like weapons of mass destruction?