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<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">About</span></span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:57, 1 May 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Artificial scarcity is a condition where in the absolute abundance of resources - the distribution of such wealth is extremely uneven. Material and energy resouces are abundant from [[First Principles]]. Yet the mainstream economy relies on making resources and products artificially scarce. Artificial scarcity does not only apply to energy and materials, but to the way humans work: [[Competitive Waste]] such as proprietary technology, trade secrets, and non-collaborative practices that are [[Hypernormalized]] to the point that most people in the world generally consider that &#039;open collaboration&#039; exists everywhere. This cannot be claimed if the fundamental mechanisms of the economy rely on patents, protectionism, monopoly, and other foul play that limits acccess to resources.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Artificial scarcity is a condition where in the absolute abundance of resources - the distribution of such wealth is extremely uneven. Material and energy resouces are abundant from [[First Principles]]. Yet the mainstream economy relies on making resources and products artificially scarce. Artificial scarcity does not only apply to energy and materials, but to the way humans work: [[Competitive Waste]] such as proprietary technology, trade secrets, and non-collaborative practices that are [[Hypernormalized]] to the point that most people in the world generally consider that &#039;open collaboration&#039; exists everywhere. This cannot be claimed if the fundamental mechanisms of the economy rely on patents, protectionism, monopoly, and other foul play that limits acccess to resources.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is no scarcity - there is only artificial scarcity - if one considers the principle of energy abundance embodied in the [[Kardashev Scale]]. The logic is - if there is energy abundance, there is material abundance. If there is material abundance, a possibility of prosperous society begins<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Unless we all become breatherians</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is no scarcity - there is only artificial scarcity - if one considers the principle of energy abundance embodied in the [[Kardashev Scale]]. The logic is - if there is energy abundance, there is material abundance. If there is material abundance, a possibility of prosperous society begins.</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=Sectors=</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=Sectors=</div></td></tr> </table>

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