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Original Post: The Problem With Abundance
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Peter de Jager has some interesting thoughts on how adaptations for scarcity (both human and technological) backfire when the norm switches from scarcity to abundance:
Anyone considering a new technology should at least ask the question: "What are the long term consequences if this advance reduces costs to zero, or increases access so that everyone with a desire to do so, can use the technology?" That might seem to be a giant 'societal' question of value only to economists and city planners, but it has applications closer to home.
I'll have to think about this one. He makes some interesting points.
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