Baum Plan short story

Socialism will eventually become a practical reality if humans can keep capitalism from destroying itself.

The Baum Plan did not introduce this idea to me, it just presented the result: people walk in and get their own custom "look," like the way characters dress themselves in The Matrix. This got me thinking about the inflated price behind the "thousands of dollars in casual clothes" that the protagonist was wearing. The real value of those items is in the idea and the rarity; introduce 3-D printers, and designs/ideas become currency of the world as manual labor is increasingly taken over by increasingly efficient mechanical processes--i'd say taken over by machines, but that implies that a robot will cut your yard rather than a scientist engineering grass that does not need to be cut or cared for. The more inventions we have that remove the need for repeated service (who is going to figure out how to make my hair stay at the same length and remove the need for barbers?) the more people are freed to participate in the world of ideas rather than the world of services.

But, we've already seen some real problems with people trying to keep "intellectual copyrights" even on things like music, and that battle is continually being lost. Instead, musicians tour and make money by actually being musicians rather than selling an item. So, does the creation and execution of an idea become a service? Will the people behind the construction of a house (an architect, contractors, roofers, lumber suppliers, hardware suppliers, etc) eventually be removed so that the only person between a consumer and his house is an architect with a mechanism that makes his blueprint a reality?

With efficiency like that, society will put further and further emphasis on education... to what result is my question? Will it result in a world in which money's relevance drastically changes, where material goods are no longer valuable? Value will always remain, but how will it manifest if not in the form of greenbacks or goods?

If socialism is "collective ownership and regulation of the means of production, distribution, and exchange for the common benefit of all members of society," then it makes sense that society becomes much more socialistic when money is devalued.