The economy is dominated by the Great Corporations. If one leaves out the legions of slaves (mons) and humans excluded from participation (~112 million hunter-gatherers, nomads and subsistance farmers), the society is actually somewhat appealing: the shareholders need do no work to have complete access to food, sufficient shelter, healthcare, and even entertainment; money is cycled endlessly between the monopolistic Great Corporations as citizens buy these things with their dividends. The actual labor in society is done mostly by mons (or nonsentient machines), though some humans do productive work, mostly of an artistic or creative nature. It must be noted that mons can and do do those things too; humans do them because some humans have a natural impulse to work, and these creative jobs are the least stigmatized sort of work by which that impulse can be fulfilled.