I’ve heard this sort of thing before, and I’ve never been totally sold on the idea of post-scarcity economics. Mostly because I think that if you give me molecular nanotechnology, I, personally, can make good use of basically as much matter and energy (the only real resources) as I can get my hands on, with only moderately diminishing returns. If that’s true for even a significant minority of the population, then there’s no such thing as a post-scarcity economy, merely an extremely wealthy one.
In practice, I expect us all to be dead or under the watchful eye of some kind of Friendly power singlet by then, so the point is rather moot anyway.
I’ve heard this sort of thing before, and I’ve never been totally sold on the idea of post-scarcity economics. Mostly because I think that if you give me molecular nanotechnology, I, personally, can make good use of basically as much matter and energy (the only real resources) as I can get my hands on, with only moderately diminishing returns. If that’s true for even a significant minority of the population, then there’s no such thing as a post-scarcity economy, merely an extremely wealthy one.
In practice, I expect us all to be dead or under the watchful eye of some kind of Friendly power singlet by then, so the point is rather moot anyway.