Talk:Post-scarcity

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Need section on population growth. See michael email
Interesting article on population growth: http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0502-rhett_butler.html

Point that once people get beyond materialism people are then in an optimal position to co-operate and collaborate for the right reasons.

Section on the economics of abundance


The fundamental positive (a sufficiency of space, material, intelligence, information) is matched by the fundamental negatives (the urge to populate until scarcity trumps abundance and the urge develop complexity, variation, embellishment and clutter, until intelligence cannot cope -- that is to experience the triumph of form over substance or mandarinism).

Simple solutions are resisted by the force of habit: for example we do not highly reward females who limit themselves to two children, nor do we highly reward effective simplification (an art that to date has lost the war against counter-productive complexity.)


Image

Make image of cornucopia with more relevant stuff pouring out:

  • Medicine
  • Drinking water
  • Food
  • Vehicles
  • Machines
  • Housing
  • Consumer products
  • etc

General

  • Create pages for people like Fresco