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		huppeldepup on July 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M Banks (1994) My gut tells me that elimination of scarcity is going to be a piecewise proces, whereby each step is countered with a lock-in of scarcity rules.

snapplebobapple on July 9, 2024 [–]

My gut tells me the probability we make it to post scarcity without a calamity (probably human manufactured) that ruins our ability to progress to post scarcity is pretty close to zero.

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