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I don't know if we are post-scarcity. Our inputs to agriculture (lots and lots of fossil fuels) are not post-scarcity in any sense. Multiply by the scale of hum

I don't know if we are post-scarcity. Our inputs to agriculture (lots and lots of fossil fuels) are not post-scarcity in any sense. Multiply by the scale of humanity and it's difficult to argue we're post-scarcity in agriculture. We might have more food than people to feed, but that doesn't mean if nothing changed we'd be able to sustain our level of production.

stcredzero 3y ago
Our inputs to agriculture (lots and lots of fossil fuels) are not post-scarcity in any sense. Yes, but our levels of productivity per-farmer would look like utter Sci-fi to a medieval peasant, if they had a notion of Sci-fi. Also, by these standards, 1st world societies are fantasy lands, where the even the poor are fat, and have magical machines to keep food fresh, deliver music and entertainment, wash clothes and dishes. (Not all, but still.) What we posit today as post-scarcity, will likely just move the goal posts for scarcity.