One of my goals for harmonic is to make it easy to set up common-pool compute resources so that members of a group can access more compute if they use it in a way that benefits the group as a whole, increasing value per token by aligning the token consumers.
In general I think common-pool resource creation/maintenance/governance is one of those things that has historically been difficult and expensive but now suddenly might be easy and cheap if we build the right systems.
Applying this idea to basic survival necessities, I think we can achieve a world where everyone can get their basic needs met without strictly requiring money. Right now society is set up so that survival requires money. Food, housing, etc. all currently require money to access. But if common-pool resource creation/maintenance/governance becomes cheap and easy, then money-facilitated trade can happen primarily at the collective-to-collective level, and distribution of resources to individuals within a collective can be automatic enough that money is not strictly necessary for individuals.
But I think it has to start with compute because that’s the scarcity most sharply felt by the people who are in a position to build such systems (who typically already have their survival needs met), and it’s likely to be the bottleneck for the systems themselves.