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Not being able to send things into space is not scarcity. Food, education, transportation, housing, healthcare, life's necessities.

• chii 4y ago
  if you were able to send things into space (which should be easy to achieve for such a society), then it's evidence we're in a post-scarcity society. By the lack of being able to send much to space, we must not currently be in a post-scarcity society, because space exploration is such a good and exciting thing to do, you'd expect that it's one of the first things to get accomplished by a post-scarcity society.
  • soraki_soladead 4y ago
    That isn't what post-scarcity means. It doesn't mean there is zero scarcity. It means basic needs are easily met: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy You're making claims about how space things align with post-scarcity that doesn't match up with the accepted meaning. Even still, we _can_ send stuff into space, now cheaper than ever. What is the threshold for "send much to space"? Any person can order up a rocket payload on Amazon.space and have it placed in orbit? That doesn't sound good even if it were free. Especially if it were free... > space exploration is such a good and exciting thing to do, you'd expect that it's one of the first things to get accomplished by a post-scarcity society Why?
• qez 4y ago
  > Not being able to send things into space is not scarcity. Strictly speaking, this is false.