In practice, all intelligent writers of post-scarcity economies realize that status will still be scarce. Doctorow has his post-scarcity economy run almost solely on status-units (whuffies, or whatever); and I think there is a line in Bank’s Culture novels somewhere to the effect that ‘the Minds could give humans everything they wanted—except to matter’.
In practice, all intelligent writers of post-scarcity economies realize that status will still be scarce. Doctorow has his post-scarcity economy run almost solely on status-units (whuffies, or whatever); and I think there is a line in Bank’s Culture novels somewhere to the effect that ‘the Minds could give humans everything they wanted—except to matter’.