<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "> [. . .] post scarcity is the thing.</span></div><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">These scarcity based philosophies are all rationing, deciding who</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">can't have something. Crappy and boring.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Technically minded people can do better. Ask yourself "how can I make</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">something free forever for everyone?". You can assume volunteers and</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">donations to help bridge the gap between "now" and "success", and you</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">can assume that free just means so very cheap that you can disregard</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the price.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If enough of us can do that, rationing is moot. [...]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-- </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Emlyn</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>The post scarcity thing seems a lot like the technocracy movement.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><a href="http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/bitstream/1892/5072/1/b13876442.pdf">http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/bitstream/1892/5072/1/b13876442.pdf</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The predictions fizzled, but Howard Scott managed to keep collecting dues for decades.</div><div>Do you think the internet and the open source movement, together with the Venus Project, etc.</div><div>can carry these ideas past futile utopianism into some kind of practical reality?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Do we need alternative (local) currencies to "bridge the gap?" </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_currency">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_currency</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>How do we prevent a violent backlash from </div><div>the collective unconscious? </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_jung">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_jung</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>We still have stone age brains.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><a href="http://www.oculture.com/2007/10/our_ancestral_mind_in_the_modern_world_an_interview_with_satoshi_kanazawa.html">http://www.oculture.com/2007/10/our_ancestral_mind_in_the_modern_world_an_interview_with_satoshi_kanazawa.html</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-- Thomas</div><div><div><br></div></div></body></html>