post-scarcity
Beyond material want
Post-scarcity describes a hypothetical economic condition where goods and services are so abundant that they're essentially free or universally available.
The concept appears frequently in science fiction and futurist speculation: In a post-scarcity society, no one would need to work for basic necessities.
The term implies technology has solved problems of production and distribution that currently require rationing through markets or governments.
Abundance symbol, horn-shaped
- plentifulExisting in abundance
- bountifulPlentiful and generous
- plentySufficient quantity, and then some
- ampleFully sufficient, even excessive
profusion · unlimited · inexhaustible · surplus · overflowing · sufficiency · enough · satiation
Shared community resources
- redistributionSharing out again differently
- non-monetaryNot involving currency
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
- post-capitalismSuccessor economic system
Things that make duplicates
- nanofabricationCreating nanometer-scale structures
- fabricatorsCreators of falsehoods
Philosophy of universal equality
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
- communalShared by a community
- cooperationJoint action toward shared aims
flourishing · well-being · liberation · self-actualization · classless
Point where values explode
- transhumanismTech-augmented evolution philosophy
- terraformingModifying worlds for habitability
cornucopia
Abundance symbol, horn-shaped
- plentifulExisting in abundance
- bountifulPlentiful and generous
- plentySufficient quantity, and then some
ample · profusion · unlimited · inexhaustible · surplus · overflowing · sufficiency · enough · satiation
commons
Shared community resources
- redistributionSharing out again differently
- non-monetaryNot involving currency
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
replicators
Things that make duplicates
- nanofabricationCreating nanometer-scale structures
- fabricatorsCreators of falsehoods
egalitarianism
Philosophy of universal equality
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
- communalShared by a community
cooperation · flourishing · well-being · liberation · self-actualization · classless
singularity
Point where values explode
- transhumanismTech-augmented evolution philosophy
- terraformingModifying worlds for habitability
- sci-fiscience fiction, Star Wars, sci-fi, Blade Runner 2049, aliens
- economic systemscapitalism, mercantilism, communism, feudalism, socialism
- tech utopiasmart city, smart cities, robot servants, automation, clean energy
- techno-utopiassolarpunk, sustainable cities, arcologies, transhumanism, singularity
- Alternative Economicsgift economy, barter, barter system, planned economy, command economy
- techno-utopianismsingularity, transhumanism, technocracy, accelerationism, mind uploading
post-scarcityscarcity
Insufficiency of something needed
shortage · deprivation · want · insufficiency · dearth
post-scarcitysubsistence economy
System without market surplus
wage slavery · survival mode · hand-to-mouth · precarity · toil
post-scarcitypre-industrial
Before mass manufacturing emerged
hunter-gatherer · feudalism · capitalism · industrial economy
poster, scarce, scarcely, postpone, scarcity, postal, postponed, postponing, postmodern