A new economic model

What if the economic model we are using is upside down?

Thanks to technological advancements scarcity is no longer a thing to the human race, yet our economic models force us to live in an era of artificial scarcity. Our base economic models operate on scarcity because they were created and developed in a time of scarcity.

Money is a tool based on imagination. It has value because we believe it to. If we are to examine value. What is value? What is value to us as humans?
In a logical economic model if I walked into a shop and picked up a coat, and left the shop I WOULD BE PAID.
Why? Because the real intrinsic value comes from me wearing the coat. A coat's value is providing warmth, utility, fashion, or whatever. There are enough coats for everyone. Coats have no value hanging on a shelf never to be worn.

So in this new economic model people would be paid for doing things they used pay for, and more!

It might seem unbelievable considering we have always followed different rules, and the rules we use now are "normalized". When things are "normalized" we may erroneously believe it to be an irrevocable natural state, when anything can be natural.

Getting paid to go to a restaurant, or pick up a jacket from a clothes store could very well be "normalized" in the near future.

The idea of getting paid to post stuff on the Steem blockchain through proof of brain isn't far fetched, because we use it. With SMTs for example you could create a token that people receive for doing real world activities, backed by the proof of brain model.

Proof of brain has the following two properties:

a pool of tokens dedicated to incentivizing content creation and curation (called the "rewards pool")

a voting system that leverages the wisdom of the crowd to assess the value of content and distribute tokens to it

Let's imagine an SMT with the following properties:

• A pool of tokens dedicated to incentivizing real world performance of improv, music, art, dance, and theatre.
• A voting system that leverages the wisdom of the crowd to assess the value of performance and distribute tokens to it

This token could work by being distributed to cast/crew, venue, and audience. You would GET PAID to enjoy performances because even the audience provide value.

In conclusion these kind of economic models can be utilized in many ways, and greatly expanded upon.