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- adjective After the
elimination ofscarcity ; in a time whensociety has sufficientresources .
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The fact that a few people at the top have recently managed to siphon off a yet larger portion of the social wealth, driving increasing numbers of people into the streets and terrorizing the rest of the population lest they succumb to the same fate, makes the feasibility of a postscarcity society less evident; but the material prerequisites are still present.
2009 April 2009
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Check out my article, “Why the Current Financial Crisis Is the End of the World As We Know It—and Why That’s Perfectly Fine,” and get an outline of the five steps I see to a true postscarcity scenario.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Jason Does Nonfiction (Kinda) 2009
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That is, if you look at it from an oblique angle and accept that the transition from a scarcity-based economy to a postscarcity scenario isn’t necessarily going to be all roses and teddy bears.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » “Willpower” Accepted by Futurismic 2008
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