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You're thinking in the old paradigm of consumers. Once AI and robotics can take care of the production of any necessities and luxury goods the owners desire the bulk of humanity becomes redundant poors likely to eventually revolt. It would be better for stability, the environment, and their view if the bulk of us died out.
Do you realize that this way the volume of the business would be a lot smaller, right ? And being rich means nothing is you have not a use for your money.
You make AI and robotics to take care of everything you need, good, now think who pay, what it is needed and who would do the work for keeping the AI and robots in a working status. Hint: not the few common people that at this point have no money for anything else that some food, if any, since you automated everything.
If the bulk of us died out, being rich means nothing, and they know it.
Why would they need money? And exchange for their upkeep labor to get to live in luxury with their families the rest of the time.
Yes, the monetary number would be meaningless. The thing that would have meaning is being able to do and have anything you want, go anywhere you want, and no longer having all those people in there poor people houses glittering up all of the scenic views.
Because not everything could be done this way. There is only so much you can do with this kind of "barter".