Concept
Post-Scarcity Economics
How pricing, labor, and ownership shift when marginal costs approach zero.
How pricing, labor, and ownership reorganize when marginal costs approach zero for essential goods.
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Concept
Near-Zero Marginal Cost
The threshold condition and its historical parallels.
The threshold condition under which post-scarcity dynamics begin to apply, and its historical parallels.
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Distributional Justice in Abundance
Who owns the models, who benefits from the electrons, who is left behind.
Why aggregate abundance has historically failed the people who most need it, and what design patterns have sometimes worked.
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Ephemeralization
Buckminster Fuller's doing-more-with-less, reread for the present.
Buckminster Fuller's long-run tendency to do more with less, and its uneasy modern renaissance.
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Age of Abundance
A living encyclopedia of post-scarcity civilization.
The socio-technical transition to near-zero-marginal-cost access to essential needs, framed as a governance problem.
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