Post Scarcity Economy

I finished another bag of coffee, which presents a surprisingly tough philosophical dilemma. What do I do with the empty bag? Of course I should throw it away, same as I have with every other coffee bag before it. Saving it would be crazy! But. This one isn’t the same…

Artificial intelligence (AI) breakthroughs came in fits and starts in the past decade, but the technology’s iPhone Moment remained elusive. Feats such as beating humans at chess and the ancient Chinese game Go generated some buzz for a few days, but the usefulness to the average person seemed perpetually 5…

How a Post-Scarcity Society Changes the Way you Live — The City is a place of no scarcity and no want, where everything you could ever desire can be summoned from a Provider at will. Yet when we look at how the people of the City live, most of them have private living spaces that are, from modern American perspectives…

Basic post scarcity is an economic system in which all the basic necessities are provided for free, without requiring any kind of labour in exchange. After multiple private and online conversations, I spotted some recurring questions about basic post scarcity, I thought it would be fun to publish them here…

Late-stage capitalism is dying. It's headed for a collapse. It shall collapse under the weight of its own contradictions. The collapse of capitalism, as hard as it is to imagine, must not lead to the collapse of our civilization. When capitalism crumbles, it must not take society down with it. …

The Last Resource It was his turn of phrase — the way investigator John Rae obliquely described the consumption of human flesh to the disbelieving British public at the time. Rae had gone searching for the ill fated 1845 Franklin Expedition to chart a Northwest Passage — a subject that…

H.P. Lovecraft created the Daemon Sultan Azathoth as a cultural gloss for an archetype of primordial chaos to battle against physical and psychic oppression. — Azathoth belongs to a long line of placental images. It is an evocation to return to the womb and avoid the perinatal near-death experience. “…the diagnosis of collective neuroses is confronted by a special difficulty. In the neurosis of an individual, we can use as a starting point the contrast presented to us between the patient and his environment which we assume to be normal. No such background as this would be available for…

How can you tell if society is moving beyond scarcity? A guide to five mileposts to pass on the way. — Poets, priests and politicians have periodically predicted the imminence of a post-scarcity society, one in which everyone has enough to meet their basic material needs. The land of milk and honey. Star Trek’s food-replicator-filled worlds. Marxist communism. Some, like leaders of the Soviet Union and American utopian communities, have claimed…

Seeking post-scarcity domains. — Scarcity programmatically built-in seems to be the dominant parameter included with domains in the Metaverse being originated today. Whether it is done by a centralized corporation or a DAO matters little for evaluating its effect upon the subsequent domain. Programmatic scarcity is a choice. For example, built-in scarcity is a…