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RE: Can we stop talking about the impossible Post-Scarcity future? Pretty please?
You make some great points. Scarcity will always exist because not matter how much things improve we will never have a perfect utopia. There will always be new uses for resources and there will always be inequality.
We can hope to keep improving things but it will never be solved. Also we will never change human nature.
People need the prospect of betterment to motivate them - that essentially means there must be some degree of inequality IMO.
Not only that, as to inequality, is any creature in this world created equal? Yet nature allows every creature to find their own little niche and live out their lives and satisfy their needs, and because it's driven by this subjective, profit driven incentive (even nature is full of entrepreneurs), when the situation changes, sometimes the positions can change around, sometimes even flip upside down.
In fact, underlying everything else, flipping the hierarchy upside down, is precisely what these distributed network systems intends to achieve, if you can attribute intent to mere ideas. Right now the ones with the biggest power, are the most vicious, conniving, violent, and fraudulent of us. It is not the 'common' who should be at the top, but the most honest, reliable, truthful, faithful and peaceful who should have the most power. They are the only ones who use power responsibly.