Am I the only one trying to figure out a hedge against money? Like not even crypto, but ways to do without anything like it, but not in a primitivist way. Kinda like how some of us do without traditional religion.
I've been thinking about this a lot for a while. Seems like the only logical extrapolation of AI. A mansion, possibly. Passports. Fuzzy stuff like skills, status, knowledge, likeability, charisma, connections - useful in any era. Worth investment in the race to singularity.
Honestly though I think it'll be more like your comparison to organized religion. It's on the decrease, but I don't think people are believing things any less. Just different things. So I'd expect a currency of some kind.
It’s kinda taken for granted that macs vs PCs, or Elon Musk or Marvel are the new religions but I don’t think they are. It’s not redirected belief tendencies but evolved belief behaviors, with significant irony etc. Humans have genuinely changed post-religion.