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Originally Posted by Cavernio

This is where I think money fails though, personally. If someone needs money as an incentive to do something, then they shouldn't be doing that thing anyways. If this means that most people won't work, then so be it.

While this sounds at first to be better, think about it a bit more. Society would collapse.

At this point, we need plenty of people to do jobs that nobody would do if they had free time and could do anything. We still need garbagemen, data entry/management people in companies, factory workers, cleaners, fast food workers... in fact I'd say that most jobs nowadays would fall under the category of something almost nobody would even consider doing without a serious reward. There's just too much that needs to be done that we can't automate. Maybe in a few hundred years we'll be beyond that, and everything tedious/dangerous/unpleasant will be done by machines (or won't need to be done at all), but right now it is very important to have a clear incentive (money) available.