Edit: Changed title to be more accurate.

Also here is the summary from Wikipedia on what Post-scarcity means:

Post-scarcity is a theoretical economic situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even freely. Post-scarcity does not mean that scarcity has been eliminated for all goods and services but that all people can easily have their basic survival needs met along with some significant proportion of their desires for goods and services. Writers on the topic often emphasize that some commodities will remain scarce in a post-scarcity society.

  • blahsay@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The problem is that while we have infinite information we do not have infinite energy/resources yet. The shift when we get it to remove power from the structures will be larger but reminiscent of the piracy/copyright battles lately

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      11 months ago

      we do not have infinite energy/resources yet.

      And we never will. At least not in the hands of the general public.

      It’s FAR to dangerous.

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        11 months ago

        Eh not really. Lock replicators from weapons. More resources means adequate mental health support. No scarcity will remove most war justification.

        Religion will be the last thing we need to kill for peace. It’s inherently divisive and anti science

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      11 months ago

      We absolutely have enough to shower every single person in lavishness. Its just not distributed. We arent post resource, but we are post scarcity.

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        11 months ago

        You’re confusing wealth with resources. If we evenly distributed wealth everyone would be wealthy but it turns out farmers would still have to farm etc.

        We don’t have the resources to give everyone on earth a palace. We don’t even have the resources on earth to give everyone a western lifestyle sadly.

        Infinite resources/energy is waaay past what you’re thinking. Think startrek and replicators