"Abundance" is a ludicrous pipe-dream. With the ways our societies are currently structured, any additional productivity / surpluses / GDP that's created via a

"Abundance" is a ludicrous pipe-dream. With the ways our societies are currently structured, any additional productivity / surpluses / GDP that's created via automation, AI, or whatever the "Next big thing" is, will just be gobbled up by the rich to pay for vacation mansions and mega yachts. Across pretty much every industrializing / industrialized / post-industrialized country on earth income inequality is rising, and at an accelerating pace. Technology is not going to save the common person, it's only going to be used a a tool to further control and exploit us, and a disproportionate share of whatever value it creates is going to go to the wealthy elites as it already does. The "Abundance" that gets talked about in techno-utopian contexts will be an "Abundance" reserved only for the rich, and unless we the people can somehow find a way to break the iron-grip of power the wealthy elites have over our societies, we won't get to share in the windfall, we'll just get to watch from the sidelines in our broken down, bankrupt communities as the rich broadcast their "Amazing" consumerist lives 24/7 via social media or whatever.