There’s a thing going on, and this might be a thing that happens, but this is theory, who knows:

3-D printing is probably going to lower the monetary value of a ton of things; we just need the price of residential areas to go down and then we’ll be good.

If we 3-D print things and do a bunch of stuff for free between people, the value of lots of things will go down monetarily.

Monetary value will still be needed for things with strangers—objects will be free, software will be free; services will be from small teams, and will be deflated in price.

We could see prices go back to the level of the 60s with the amount of deflation that could be going on.

Now, in thinking about this change, it’s important to note that monetary value is not in direct correlation to the value of a thing. I know that it personally makes me nervous how this idea might come to fruition, in hoping that it does.

Now, if you’re like me, the strain we feel has to do with the lack of agency that’s been instilled upon us by the advent of home appliances, and the atomisation of communities.

The atomisation is likely going to reverse because the growth of technology—horseshoe theory—where we’ll have to interact with what’s in front of us because we can’t trust the screen and we’ll still want to live life.