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RE: Will Money Be Missed In A Post Scarcity World?
Two to five hundred years. Where did I get those numbers? I made them up.
To be truly post-scarcity you need to be able to make anything rapidly and cheaply, whether it's diamonds (easy, they're just carbon) or potatoes (very complicated). Ideally, you need to be able to take a bag of protons, one of neutrons, and one of electrons, and assemble any atoms, then any molecules, you want out of them, as if they were LEGO bricks.
We are centuries away from being able to do that, in my opinion.
Agreed, we are indeed centuries away from that (probably), however I am envisioning a post-scarcity world way before that.
We are not too far away from machines being able to do all the most menial work, renewable energy for all is just round the corner. Add to that the fact that we are progressing in society as far as providing for people is concerned (with some notable exceptions).
Today they are more than twice as many people dying from over eating as do from malnutrition, soon there will be nobody dying from starvation, this is the post-scarce world that I speak of (even if we went of for 500 years in the thought experiment :-) )
Cg