On the Political Consequences of Scarcity and Economic Decline

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• Neglects Kardashev Scale and is thus from first principles doomed to bad conclusions
• One good quote 'Resource constraints on most pre-modern societies were severe, for reasons which we would attribute to primitive technology but they to natural limits' - same myopia plagues this author and is a common misperception that applies today just as it applied with 'primitive' technology, as our current technology is 'primitive' by future standards.
• MJ Optimistic viewpoint - fix artificial scarcity, fix politics. Creative approach means that we work on mutually assured abundance by understanding that at the bottom of it, we all want a good life. Financial independence would allow individuals to have a possibility to evolve to psycho-social integration of Radical Man, whereas in today's world that is impossible except for a few outliers.