Questions tagged [post-scarcity]
For questions about societies where meeting basic human needs is no longer a worry due to an abundance of available resources.
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Designing giant space creatures becomes a popular fad in a super advanced post-scarcity society. How large can space creatures get?
This is a completely post-scarcity society. Robots and automated systems run the economy and most research. AIs are commonplace, and available to all in the human-like, completely obedient, and super-...
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What would justify the use of homing pigeons in a world where sending digital messages is a viable option? [duplicate]
The setting is a post-scarcity civilization, where a galactic government exists, but due to the limitations on faster-than-light travel, each world is relatively self-governed.
I want a city on one of ...
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Implementing a system of "happiness currency" in a transhumanist society as a way to avoid wireheading
I am writing a transhumanist science fiction story that employs a system called "utility vouchers". A utility voucher is a redeemable unit of value that humans are allotted on an egalitarian ...
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What factors would determine the behaviors of post-scarcity society?
I'm looking for something more like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, but extended beyond the purely physical. I'm not looking for a list of things people would do, or "Here's what I would do", ...
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How can a post scarcity Society not be hedonistic?
The society I am building is highly automated, post-scarcity, with the ability to essentially "3-D print" anything.
Is there a reasonable way for me to explain why the people of this ...
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Justifying why the birth of a post-scarcity world would cause other planets to secede
So, in roughing out the basic historical timeline of this project o’ mine, I have decided that the two most important aspects of the 24th century are:
1st, the birth of a post-scarcity on Earth, ...
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How to make money from free electricity (and not draw attention)? [closed]
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Some new magic/handwavium device provides free electricity. How does my character make (good) money out of that without letting people/the authorities know about the device?
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Life in a post-scarcity economy [closed]
Quoting Wikipedia, a post-scarcity is a theoretical economic situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed, so that they become available to all very ...
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How could a pandemic trigger a renaissance? [closed]
In all this gloomy pandemic reporting of the last 3/4 years nobody ever noticed that one of the worst pandemics in known history happened at the beginning of the renaissance and it did not stop it. It ...
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How big would a city of crops need to be to minimise all agricultural land use?
I made these sketches to envision a world where food is grown in buildings and people can live in forests covered lands instead of the land being used for agriculture. But how big would such a city ...
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Why would a very advanced Transhumanist Civilization ever need to have a military or wage wars?
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First of all, let's define what a very advanced transhumanist civilization is in my setting:
1- Post-scarcity civilization (Kardashev level II or even III) where everyone has abundance in ...
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Could a waiting list be used as a monetary system in a post-scarcity society?
I'm writing a futuristic sci-fi story that takes place in a mostly post-scarcity economy. Resources are abundant, and no one needs to work for basic necessities or luxuries. Robots do all manual labor,...
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How can a dictatorship government be beneficial to a dictator in a post-scarcity society?
In my scenario of a post-scarcity society in the far future, everyone has abundance in their basic needs from food and energy and the technology is very advanced that humans are more intelligent, ...
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In a future post-scarcity civilization, how would evolution change humans when survival is no longer a challenge? [closed]
Let's imagine a post-scarcity society where everyone has unlimited access to food, energy and the aging problem has been solved so people are practically immortal.
Now my understanding is that, our ...
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Essentials for post apocalyptic traveler
You are a traveling across what used to be Colorado and Utah: it may be cold, it may be hot.
This is okay, you have caches of clothing and weather gear you can easily pick up. Electricity is ...
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