alt Hacker News> Scarcity is a timeless fact of life in a finite world
I agree, and I think the rest of your post contains the key idea:
> reduce scarcity
Scarcity will never be zero, and it doesn't need to be. It just needs to be infinitesimal, close enough to zero for economics to become irrelevant.
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tjwebbnorfolk • today at 6:54 AM
Well, my ancestors would already say that our scarcity is effectively zero.
Yet we still have political arguments about healthcare and I get irritated when my AI service says I'm out of quota, two things that didn't exist 4 or 5 generations ago. Unless you consider whiskey and opium to be healthcare. It's amazing what we've adapted to.
Scarcity can and is manipulated, see de Beers!