The ultimate scarcity is pleasant proximity to other people, as realised by good walkable urbanism. (The other pleasant environment is full nature, which is just a question of not messing with it.)

Surplus capital from the robot revolution therefore flows to that scarcity (via banks, who have a license to print money by lending for mortgages) which is why we see land among walkable urbanism being bid up to the sky.

The most egregious policy barrier is parking minima, with Euclidean single-use zoning and AASHTO anti-human public space design rules a very close second and third.

The surplus capital from the robot utopia should see humans as greco-roman philosophers, dining, wining and dancing in beautiful towns of villas. Instead it'll probably see us gorging on chips lost in an oculus rift world and robotaxi-ing among a sprawling wasteland of cheap tilt-ups.

Demand zoning reform now!