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I agree. My personal term for this is "weakly post scarcity." It's the point at which the median member of a society will more often suffer from excessive consu
by philipkglass 3y ago
I agree. My personal term for this is "weakly post scarcity." It's the point at which the median member of a society will more often suffer from excessive consumption of $thing than they suffer from deprivation of $thing.
There will never be true post-scarcity in our finite universe. A lot of services and goods can become weakly post scarcity in that they'll exhaust someone's finite time (watching YouTube or other entertainment) or destroy their body (drinking alcohol) before the median person will run out of money to personally consume more of them.
The weakly post scarcity environment brings new challenges but they are largely better ones to grapple with than those of a high scarcity environment.