RE: Will Money Be Missed In A Post Scarcity World?
I don't know if you are smoke but I would love to smoke some weed and have a conversation with you! Lol!
You have a very powerdul imagination, no doubt about it and I can't say that i haven't thought about this ideea a few times. Freud once said that life is like a race for pleasure and that pleasure can only come as a temporary satisfaction as we solve the immediate needs and desires of ourselves. That might explain the rat problem.
As for the new world, it's easy to imagine such an Utopia but hard to comprehred the circumstances that would make one. How will we have enough? How will all have the same ammount of wealth when some people feed the need to have more and they can take it from anywhere and so many more questions.
It's been a great excercise for my mind and no doubt that i will give it more thought. Untill next time, great work man! I love your imagination!
Thanks for your comments, we must sit down and have a smoke together sometime :-)
For me post-scarce does not necessarily mean we're all equally wealthy, it just means that nobody wants for basic needs such as food, shelter, and water. It also means that energy is abundant and so the need for material based wars has been eradicated.
In such a society, wealth would be viewed very differently to the way we view it today, like you say, it's a great exercise for the mind trying to comprehend such matters! :-)
Cg