Caleb James DeLisle on Nostr: Another perspective: We've had post-scarcity since the 1970s, post-scarcity doesn't ...

Another perspective: We've had post-scarcity since the 1970s, post-scarcity doesn't mean post-work, it just means that mass production makes it possible to make so much "stuff" that actual cost of keeping a human alive becomes kind of a rounding error.

But we still have an economy because money is the only organizing principle that we have and we know it works. That said, it allows us to give welfare, food stamps and pensions to half the population and not really notice it in our own cost of living.