We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

[bigmonkey]

87. Surprising that some find this upsetting, or pie-in-the-sky

Fuller was able to demonstrate that the struggle to provide enough for a decent life for everyone was basically over by the 1970s. It had been a technical and physical impossibility until then, but the those obstacles had been overcome. Only the societal obstacles remained, and remain.

The statement in the OP has a second section, where Fuller describes what the "true business of people" should be. Instead of discussing that, many replies have set up a sessile gaming pizza-eater as a straw man. "Useless eater" is a mainly RW trope, but it has been propagandized pretty heavily. "Inspectors of inspectors" sounds, to me, pretty similar to the economy we have now.

I think that we all can name many things that need doing, but aren't done because people can't support themselves while doing them. Perhaps those things should become real possibilities, through a rearrangement of society's priorities, given a technical and industrial base that can support most living humans fairly easily. As an example, I would rather work on cleaning up the oceans, than compete for a job polishing my local aristocrat's yacht simply because that's the only job I can support myself with.