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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 cheaply or even freely.[1][2]
Post-scarcity does not mean that scarcity has been eliminated for all goods and services but that all people can easily have their basic survival needs met along with some significant proportion of their desires for goods and services.[3] Writers on the topic often emphasize that some commodities will remain scarce in a post-scarcity society.[4][5][6][7]
- ^ Sadler, Philip (2010), Sustainable Growth in a Post-Scarcity World: Consumption, Demand, and the Poverty Penalty, Surrey, England: Gower Applied Business Research, p. 7, ISBN 978-0-566-09158-2
- ^ Robert Chernomas. (1984). "Keynes on Post-Scarcity Society." In: Journal of Economic Issues, 18(4).
- ^ Burnham, Karen (22 June 2015), Space: A Playground for Postcapitalist Posthumans, Strange Horizons, archived from the original on 27 November 2015, retrieved 14 November 2015,
By post-scarcity economics, we're generally talking about a system where all the resources necessary to fulfill the basic needs (and a good chunk of the desires) of the population are available.
- ^ Frase, Peter (Winter 2012). "Four Futures". Jacobin. No. 5. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015.
- ^ Sadler, Philip (2010). Sustainable Growth in a Post-Scarcity World: Consumption, Demand, and the Poverty Penalty. Surrey, England: Gower Applied Business Research. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-566-09158-2.
- ^ Das, Abhimanyu; Anders, Charlie Jane (30 September 2014). "Post-Scarcity Societies (That Still Have Scarcity)". io9. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
- ^ (Drexler 1986), See the first paragraph of the section "The Positive-Sum Society" (archived December 20, 2011) in Chapter 6.