Artificial Material Scarcity: Difference between revisions

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Artificial Scarcity related to materials and energy resources.

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-See Practical Post-Scarcity video
+[[Artificial Scarcity]] related to materials and energy resources.
-Artificial material scarcity is a condition where in the absolute abundance of material resources - namely, rocks, plants, water, sunlight, air - from which all the wealth comes - their distribution is poor - causing poverty, hunger, resource conflicts, etc.
-Artificial material scarcity involves high efficiency of production and low efficiency of distributing the resulting wealth amond the populace. Great abundance is enjoyed by the few, and deprivation is suffered by most. This is confirmed by standard data on the distribution of wealth in society, where it is generally accepted as true that a decreasing fraction of the population continues to reap an increasing portion of income.
-This is the status quo which may be addressed via the open source economy. An open source economy is
-The [[Open Source Ecology Paradigm]] works on creating the open source economy by creating [[Distributive Enterprise]].