[ExI] Post-Scarcity

[Thomas]

>  [. . .] post scarcity is the thing.
>
> These scarcity based philosophies are all rationing, deciding who
> can't have something. Crappy and boring.
>
> Technically minded people can do better. Ask yourself "how can I make
> something free forever for everyone?". You can assume volunteers and
> donations to help bridge the gap between "now" and "success", and you
> can assume that free just means so very cheap that you can disregard
> the price.
>
> If enough of us can do that, rationing is moot.  [...]
> --  
> Emlyn


The post scarcity thing  seems a lot like the technocracy movement.

http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/bitstream/1892/5072/1/b13876442.pdf

The predictions fizzled, but Howard Scott managed to keep collecting  
dues for decades.
Do you think the internet and the open source movement, together with  
the Venus Project, etc.
can carry these ideas past futile utopianism into some kind of  
practical reality?

Do we need alternative (local) currencies to "bridge the gap?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_currency

How do we prevent a violent backlash from
the collective unconscious?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_jung

We still have stone age brains.

http://www.oculture.com/2007/10/ 
our_ancestral_mind_in_the_modern_world_an_interview_with_satoshi_kanazaw 
a.html

-- Thomas

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