http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/10/30/after-post-scarcity-economics/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:24:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/10/30/after-post-scarcity-economics/comment-page-1/#comment-116292 Carnival Culture 08: The Publick House - [tmbchr]â„¢ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:44:21 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/10/30/after-post-scarcity-economics/#comment-116292 [...] Gift economies are based on abundance, wherein there are more than enough resources for all members of one’s tribe or social group, and sharing is the norm. Hunter-gatherer societies generally share(d) food as “a safeguard against failure of any individual’s daily foraging.” As another site explains: “More generally, in hunter-gatherer societies the hunter’s status was not determined by how much of the kill he ate, but rather by what he brought back for others.” [...] [...] Gift economies are based on abundance, wherein there are more than enough resources for all members of one’s tribe or social group, and sharing is the norm. Hunter-gatherer societies generally share(d) food as “a safeguard against failure of any individual’s daily foraging.” As another site explains: “More generally, in hunter-gatherer societies the hunter’s status was not determined by how much of the kill he ate, but rather by what he brought back for others.” [...]

]]> http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/10/30/after-post-scarcity-economics/comment-page-1/#comment-86603 Tim Boucher Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:58:32 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/10/30/after-post-scarcity-economics/#comment-86603 {See also: http://baltimorefreestore.org/ whose director, Matt Warfield, I am interviewing and hopefully soon meeting. I want to talk through these issues with him as he is directly acting upon them now} {See also: http://baltimorefreestore.org/ whose director, Matt Warfield, I am interviewing and hopefully soon meeting. I want to talk through these issues with him as he is directly acting upon them now}

]]> http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/10/30/after-post-scarcity-economics/comment-page-1/#comment-86601 Svenson Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:48:22 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/10/30/after-post-scarcity-economics/#comment-86601 I agree that "post scarcity" is bad. Scarcity will always be there, its something we create. I remember being at a thing where the Hare Krishnas were giving away free food on the street. Lots of people took it, then threw it on the ground in the surrounding blocks because they weren't actually that hungry (but hey it was free) or they didn't like it. So in a world with free food, places to live where people didn't throw food on the ground nearby would be more scarce. If robots cleaned it up, there would be something else, like intelligence or physical beauty that was in demand so it would be coveted and there would be scarcity. Scarcity goes with diversity. I like "value abundance" because it implies abundance is there, but doesn't claim scarcity isn't there. I agree that “post scarcity” is bad. Scarcity will always be there, its something we create. I remember being at a thing where the Hare Krishnas were giving away free food on the street. Lots of people took it, then threw it on the ground in the surrounding blocks because they weren’t actually that hungry (but hey it was free) or they didn’t like it. So in a world with free food, places to live where people didn’t throw food on the ground nearby would be more scarce. If robots cleaned it up, there would be something else, like intelligence or physical beauty that was in demand so it would be coveted and there would be scarcity. Scarcity goes with diversity. I like “value abundance” because it implies abundance is there, but doesn’t claim scarcity isn’t there.

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