What we can at best hope to do is shift the emphasis away from the fourth path (post-scarcity technology used to create artificial scarcity) and towards the first three (a basic income, a gift economy, and/or peer production — all using post-scarcity technology to create abundance). A meditation by Paul Fernhout, who distinguishes four reactions to increased abundance, one of them being renewed demands to artificially impose scarcities so that market mechanisms can continue to operate even when they are not needed. See also for background, an earlier article by Roberto Verzola: Finite demand makes relative abundance possible. Paul Fernhout:
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