Have you ever met a few rich kids, who today effectively live in a post-scarcity world ? I am not saying there isn't anything but spoiled, cruel brats, but it's

Have you ever met a few rich kids, who today effectively live in a post-scarcity world ? I am not saying there isn't anything but spoiled, cruel brats, but it's pretty damn rare (and the non-spoyiled ones tend to be the ones that weren't rich when they were kids). There are other forms of post-scarcity. E.g. the long-term unemployed of Western Europe, in England, Holland and France. People who have been unemployed for 2-3 generations. They don't have any real way to improve their situation, nor to make it worse. They spend their time being bored, watching tv, and generally doing anything they possibly can to avoid caring for their kids (just like those rich guys, just less over-the-top). I would add that this is what any intelligent algorithm would do when confronted with the situation. Outside of completely ridiculous things (like winning the lottery, or committing murder) there is nothing they can do to improve or worsen their situation : they will enter into a self-reinforcing random walk through their options.