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It would cost a lot of money for Earthlings to send an occasional mission to the relatively nearby Moon or Mars. There must be a lot of really affluent civiliz
by tamaharbor 5y ago
It would cost a lot of money for Earthlings to send an occasional mission to the relatively nearby Moon or Mars. There must be a lot of really affluent civilizations in the universes.
- cyberbanjo 5y agoOne of my favorite sci-fi tropes is post scarcity
- lgl 5y agoI think the main issue with this argument isn't really whether it's a post scarcity civilization or not, but the implying that any alien civilization, especially an advanced one, would also develop into an almost exclusively capitalistic society like us. It's going way too much into anthropomorphizing territory.
- ec109685 5y agoOnce you have sufficiently advanced robots, doesn’t the cost of most goods dramatically reduce since the labor is taken out of the entire supply chain?
- mynameisvlad 5y agoUsually, post-scarcity as an element deals with matter replicators/molecular assemblers that can build anything out of raw materials. See Diamond Age, Accelerando, etc.
- dahfizz 5y agoResources are always scarce. Energy and raw materials will always be expensive, and the demand for energy and materials both increases as they become more available (keeping the price high).