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Scarcity & Abundance
What greater productive capacity could change, and why its benefits are not automatic.
Technology & Society · 3 minThe Constraint We Have to OutgrowScarcity has never stopped progress, but it shortens horizons and turns competition into conflict. The argument that cheap production changes the constraint human nature operates under, not human nature itself.Scarcity & Abundance
Technology & Society · 3 minThe Cotton Gin Test: Can We Reach Abundance Without Breaking Society?The cotton gin made cotton production far more efficient and expanded slavery rather than reducing it. A test for whether the coming transition to abundance reaches its goal, or implodes on the way.Scarcity & Abundance
Technology & Society · 2 minScarcity as a Structural Constraint on Human CivilizationScarcity treated as a disease rather than a background condition: the pressure of not enough food, land, energy and opportunity, and what it has done to how people think and treat each other.Scarcity & Abundance