Manna

Management software that scripts human workers by headset, then robots that replace them.

Two societies from identical technology. In one, the displaced live in windowless welfare dormitories on a fixed allowance. In the other, everyone holds a share of the robots and does as they like. The variable is ownership, and nothing else.

Capital captures it — Nothing is abolished. The gains are simply owned by someone.

Crude as fiction, unusually clean as an argument. Free to read online.