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This seems way off topic but too fun not to discuss Even in a world with replicators someone gets the penthouse, someone else gets the first floor. Someone get

This seems way off topic but too fun not to discuss Even in a world with replicators someone gets the penthouse, someone else gets the first floor. Someone gets the 1br apartment in Detroit. Someone else gets the beachfront mansion. That's just one example of the things a replicator will not make less scarce. Another is people's time. Want 200 people to make assets for the next Call of Duty game? Want them to all be talented? You're going to have to give them something. Probably money so they can try to get one of the more desirable living spaces.

TeMPOraL 14y ago
> Want 200 people to make assets for the next Call of Duty game? Want them to all be talented? You're going to have to give them something. Probably money so they can try to get one of the more desirable living spaces. Why would you like to make a next CoD? Because you think it's fun and many people would enjoy it. You know they want it. There are likely to be more than 200 talented people wanting to take part in making this game. For fun, because they like the idea, they want the game to be made. In post-scarcity society you and others won't have much extrinsic motivators; the intrinsic ones would run the society.