Thanks for your reply, Solanumtinkr
Solanumtinkr said :
The situation you are describing is called a Post Scarcity Society , though such situations never tend to last, not historically any way. The current system is based in perpetual growth in order to sustain itself, the 90's saw the introduction of the IT revolution (You've all heard of companies like Google!) that stopped the economies from hitting a wall back then, as massive growth in those sectors pulled out fat out of the fire. At present there is nothing to take its place, maybe it'll sort itself out, maybe not but some resources are threatening to run out and that is going to create problems of its own. That is except maybe a big push into space, mad as it sounds a big push in that direction may serve to solve some problems in the long term.
Ooh, I hadn't really thought about it this way before - that post scarcity can be considered something that comes and goes as society's demands and ability to create fluctuate. I think this is an interesting way to put it, as it raises a question about what the eventual limits might be. Space exploration might provide more resources, but what's going to be next, and after that? How will society's resource demands change over time, and will those changes correlate with new ways of producing? In a state of essentially unlimited ability to produce, would society's demands also become equally as unlimited?
Lots of interesting questions
Solanumtinkr said :
The situation you are describing is called a Post Scarcity Society , though such situations never tend to last, not historically any way. The current system is based in perpetual growth in order to sustain itself, the 90's saw the introduction of the IT revolution (You've all heard of companies like Google!) that stopped the economies from hitting a wall back then, as massive growth in those sectors pulled out fat out of the fire. At present there is nothing to take its place, maybe it'll sort itself out, maybe not but some resources are threatening to run out and that is going to create problems of its own. That is except maybe a big push into space, mad as it sounds a big push in that direction may serve to solve some problems in the long term.
Ooh, I hadn't really thought about it this way before - that post scarcity can be considered something that comes and goes as society's demands and ability to create fluctuate. I think this is an interesting way to put it, as it raises a question about what the eventual limits might be. Space exploration might provide more resources, but what's going to be next, and after that? How will society's resource demands change over time, and will those changes correlate with new ways of producing? In a state of essentially unlimited ability to produce, would society's demands also become equally as unlimited?
Lots of interesting questions
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03-May-2017 04:17:03 - Last edited on 04-May-2017 05:16:07 by Blasty
