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Removed a bunch of original research and tagged uncited un sourced information from the article. This article needs to be reorganized and more cited information used. It was reading as a speculative blog and is still so needs further cutting of information and putting better cited information in. [[User:Earl King Jr.|Earl King Jr.]] ([[User talk:Earl King Jr.|talk]]) 03:00, 1 June 2015 (UTC) |
Removed a bunch of original research and tagged uncited un sourced information from the article. This article needs to be reorganized and more cited information used. It was reading as a speculative blog and is still so needs further cutting of information and putting better cited information in. [[User:Earl King Jr.|Earl King Jr.]] ([[User talk:Earl King Jr.|talk]]) 03:00, 1 June 2015 (UTC) |
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:The diff is [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Post-scarcity_economy&type=revision&diff=665669208&oldid=663716842 here], in case anybody can ref the info.[[User:Jonpatterns|Jonpatterns]] ([[User talk:Jonpatterns|talk]]) 12:22, 6 June 2015 (UTC) |
:The diff is [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Post-scarcity_economy&type=revision&diff=665669208&oldid=663716842 here], in case anybody can ref the info.[[User:Jonpatterns|Jonpatterns]] ([[User talk:Jonpatterns|talk]]) 12:22, 6 June 2015 (UTC) |
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Shortening intro
Might we replace "and intelligence), in conjunction with sophisticated automated systems capable of converting raw materials into finished goods" with simply "and labor)"? It seems to me that intelligence isn't really a "resource" per se, but the combination of intelligence and the ability to process materials could be succinctly defined as "labor", which is certainly a resource (and a much more quantifiable one, at that). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.179.150.137 (talk) 18:56, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
It is conceivable...
"Even without postulating new technologies, it is conceivable that already there exists enough energy, raw materials and biological resources to provide a comfortable lifestyle for every person on Earth."
Is this really realistic, given civilization's dependency on fossil and nuclear fuels, minerals that aren't completely recycled, topsoil loss because of agriculture, loss of biodiversity, increaing amounts of toxic garbage, and similar problems? Are there sources for this "conceivable" assumption? What to make of it? 92.75.154.64 (talk) 19:18, 21 April 2010 (UTC) Hedonic Treader
Also, if goods are services were "practically free" costing little, would that cause mass-deflation, and we'd be back where we were when people only made cents an hour? The snare (talk) 00:05, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
It depends on the level of consumption 77.240.251.193 (talk) 14:25, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
I can prove that it is realistic that this is conceivable, someone wrote that it is conceivable. In other words whoever wrote this in the first place proved that he could conceive of it, he didn't say that it was a realistic future for humans he just said that we can think of it right? If this is not good enough then I might suggest hunting for a citation on religious web pages as a lot of them have talk of some kind of golden age like described. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.203.138.208 (talk) 19:25, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
History
I would like this article to have a have some historical background. Like who first coined the term. Notable people involved etc. Thank You. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.67.59.42 (talk) 18:57, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
Stub
I would like to this article expanded. Although it currently accurately defines what Post Scarcity I think it could be expanded to include more examples and arguments concerning the subject.--Lzygenius 16:39, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Other comments
Why is there a link to Burning Man at the bottom of this? I'm kind of skeptical about the other external links, too... Brianlucas
Might want to add something about Mark Adlard's books, Interface, Pro-Face and Multiface.
It's worth noting that the information about 'Diamond Age' is a major spoiler and gives away a large portion of the plot, if not the entire thrust of it. Had I not already read the book, I'd be pretty pissed off; is there a way to get the idea across without such a spoiler?
- I have slightly tweaked it, as I disagree that it is that much of a major spoiler, but no worries. PS: please sign your posts with four tildes ~~~~ Ingolfson 13:51, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Exponential growth
"For example, if the human population continued to grow indefinitely at its 1994 rate, in 1,900 years the mass of the human population would equal the mass of Earth, and in 6,000 years the mass of the human population would equal the estimated mass of the observable universe"
How is such a sentence written without ending with "so obviously that's gibberish"? Actual estimates of population growth – one where they actually did some work instead of mindlessly extrapolating from an arbitrary figure – have us leveling off around 9 billion. It's already trending towards 0 in every developed society and in some cases has gone negative. There is no food scarcity in these societies. For reproductive purposes these societies are post-scarcity. People can have multiple times more children than they do and nearly universally don't and the net result is a population growth stall. There is a strong inverse correlation between poverty and birth rates.
The spaceships and stellar-scale engineering projects and incredibly speculative in comparison to the fact that even if people are reproducing too much, it is not remotely unprecedented to just pass a law about it like they did in China. In a post scarcity society you have no inverse pyramid concern or economic pressures to grow; social programs to encourage growth (these exist in some European countries) would be abandoned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.67.209.128 (talk) 09:12, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Replacing zero-point energy with fusion
I replaced the reference to zero point energy with fusion power as from what is currently known harnessing zero-point energy is not possible. The next best energy source is likely nuclear fusion which is at least known to be theoretically possible (although practically very difficult). - CharlesC 22:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
- In fact - look to the sun - fusion is practically possible, and it has been achieved on Earth already. Just not with a output power/input power ratio >1 yet... MadMaxDog 06:30, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Unreferenced
(Note: Tag not placed by me)
Hhhmmmp. Any fictional concept by nature will include speculation. The placer of the tag does have the right of it in that we have not cited/referenced anything at the moment. So lets see if we can change this. This may mean that we will have to rewrite sections as referring mostly to fictional treatments of post-scarcity as opposed to a general article. Unless we actually can find notable non-fiction references. MadMaxDog 03:38, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
- Oh well, I hate these tags so much I did it myself immediately after placing the above notice. Excuse the mess of trying to follow the changes, it turned into a major overhaul. Also, please add more references, if you would. MadMaxDog 04:59, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
- Good job! CharlesC 17:19, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
In developed societies
I would but havent put a mention that some highly developed societies are embracing "piracy", that is the treatement of digital objects eg.g mp3s, as non-scarce (which they are) and ignoring any "price" that has been put on them, even though there is no scarcity to manage economically.
That's Sweden, by the way HDI 2008: 6th, and their Pirate Party and Bay.--81.105.243.17 (talk) 14:44, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Edit conflicts with directing traffic to commercial enterprise ?
Hibernian (Ross Murphy) you are removing links to Technocracy Incorporated and leaving links to a NET related page Technocracy movement. This would seem like a conflict of interest and an effort to present one view of Technocracy issues only. You are also a user of the Network of European Technocrats website and the Director of that group Andrew Wallace (Isenhand wiki editor here) formed a team to control the wikipedia articles regarding Technocracy issues. http://en.technocracynet.eu/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=63&func=view&catid=7&id=853#1399 Network of European Technocrats - Re:"War" on Wikipedia over Technocracy I - N.E.T. Forum. Also as a registered used on Network of European Technocrats it would appear that you are in a conflict of interest by directing traffic to a commercial site http://en.technocracynet.eu/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=85&Itemid=65 Network of European Technocrats - Ross Murphy of which you are a participant. That site publishes only self published material that is not peer reviewed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest Wikipedia:Conflict of interest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
It also tries to direct people to buy a book by another wikipedia editor here Isenhand or Dr. Andrew Wallace http://www.lulu.com/content/750510 Technocracy: Building a new sustainable society for a post carbon world by Andrew Wallace (Book) in Engineering. That book and other commercial products (calenders and music C.D.'s were designed as a profit mechanism for NET or Network of European Technocrats.
Here is another example of Andrew Wallace Director of Network of European Technocrats writing a review under his wikipedia name (Isenhand) on a website and making it look as though he is reviewing the book by Andrew Wallace - He is reviewing his own book under a false guise then http://www.sustainabilityblog.org/ SustainabilityBlog.Org If interested parties scroll down a bit they will see this conflict of interest also. skip sievert (talk) 15:52, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
added reference
To energy accounting, and article by Fezer. [http://www.technocracy.org/Archives/The%20Energy%20Certificate-r.htm The Energy Certificate An article on Energy Accounting. This post scarcity concept is drawn out in this essay.
misnomer
In the lead it says, "The term post-scarcity economics is somewhat of a misnomer...". While it's sorta supported with a quote, as it stands it's wp:synthesis unless an editor comes up with a quote from someone notable saying it's a misnomer. CRETOG8(t/c) 23:54, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
- As has been noted you appear to be stalking pages that I am editing. I am asking you to stop doing that. skip sievert (talk) 04:46, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Redirect from Technocracy (Abundance)
Recent redirect made by Loremaster of Abundance (economics) to post scarcity Also I just redirected here an article Abundance (Technocracy) which was kind of an orphan and was slated to either merge or possibly delete. Post scarcity seems to cover both contents of redirected articles very well. skip sievert (talk) 02:05, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
The Zeitgeist Movement
An organisation that has quite a bit to say about a potential post-scarcity society is The Zeitgeist Movement. Maybe it should be mentioned.--Mátyás (talk) 12:46, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
- I agree --Arthurfragoso (talk) 19:52, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- I just included The Venus Project and The Zeitgeist Movement to the article. It needs some formating and probably some editing to fit better with the article. I got the text from the main article of each one. --Arthurfragoso (talk) 21:05, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Post-Scarcity Symbol
http://singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com/singularity-utopia-post-scarcity-awareness-as-an-antidote-to-despair/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.184.242.109 (talk) 15:42, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
- You're linking to a blog about the technological singularity? Post-scarcity has an actual economic meaning - it doesn't have anything relevant to a society, and nothing explicitly relevant to singularity-folk. And even if it did, we're not doing an article on the "International Post-scarcity Society" - we're doing an article on post-scarcity. If there was a subsection on the society (should it be notable), then perhaps the logo would go there. SamuelRiv (talk) 19:46, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
- That blog is signed "singularity 2045", which is also coincidentally the name of the website that came up with the symbol. To merit inclusion I think you'd need multiple independent (and notable) sources making use of the symbol. Hypnosifl (talk) 23:59, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
a.k.a "Resource-based economy" ?
New reader to this article and the concept, having just heard of it from two activists at Occupy Atlanta. When I searched for "Resource-based economy" i was re-directed to this article. But I find that there is no mention of the term. Should it be included somewhere on the page? A Google search brings up a wiki-page on Jacque Fresco where it is mentioned and referenced, as well as scholarly articles from Stanford et al. -Anon98 98.92.184.95 (talk) 20:34, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
- Done! :) Arthurfragoso (talk) 20:00, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
"unavoidable scarcity"
Does anyone else think that section is nonsense. I mean the entire concept is nonsense, but we have plenty of articles on nonsense. What is problematic is that "unavoidable scarcity" is the reason theoretical "post scarcity" could never happen. Debating the possibility of self-replicating ring worlds and faster than light travel is stupid. stupid. The population size (N) at such a time when the mass of the population equals the mass of the earth would be roughly 8.31x10^22. So when you invent your ship that can travel faster than light, make sure you design it to transport at the very least a few trillion people per trip. In summary, the article ought to discuss the hypotheticals of post scarcity, but the section titled "unavoidable scarcity" shouldn't shy away from the fact that the economic principle of scarcity is, in reality, unavoidable. -Fcb981(talk:contribs) 03:45, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, this is one of the many problems with this article, it really needs a major overhaul. --OpenFuture (talk) 04:48, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- I hope this will shed light on your misunderstandings:
(summary, by M. King Hubbert)
- During a 4-hour interview with Stephen B Andrews, SbAndrews at worldnet.att.net, on March 8, 1988, Dr. Hubbert handed over a copy of the following, which was the subject of a seminar he taught, or participated in, at MIT Energy Laboratory on Sept 30, 1981.
- "The world's present industrial civilization is handicapped by the coexistence of two universal, overlapping, and incompatible intellectual systems: the accumulated knowledge of the last four centuries of the properties and interrelationships of matter and energy; and the associated monetary culture which has evloved from folkways of prehistoric origin.
- "The first of these two systems has been responsible for the spectacular rise, principally during the last two centuries, of the present industrial system and is essential for its continuance. The second, an inheritance from the prescientific past, operates by rules of its own having little in common with those of the matter-energy system. Nevertheless, the monetary system, by means of a loose coupling, exercises a general control over the matter-energy system upon which it is super[im]posed.
- "Despite their inherent incompatibilities, these two systems during the last two centuries have had one fundamental characteristic in common, namely, exponential growth, which has made a reasonably stable coexistence possible. But, for various reasons, it is impossible for the matter-energy system to sustain exponential growth for more than a few tens of doublings, and this phase is by now almost over. The monetary system has no such constraints, and, according to one of its most fundamental rules, it must continue to grow by compound interest. This disparity between a monetary system which continues to grow exponentially and a physical system which is unable to do so leads to an increase with time in the ratio of money to the output of the physical system. This manifests itself as price inflation. A monetary alternative corresponding to a zero physical growth rate would be a zero interest rate. The result in either case would be large-scale financial instability."
- "With such relationships in mind, a review will be made of the evolution of the world's matter-energy system culminating in the present industrial society. Questions will then be considered regarding the future:
- What are the constraints and possibilities imposed by the matter-energy system? human society sustained at near optimum conditions?
- Will it be possible to so reform the monetary system that it can serve as a control system to achieve these results?
- If not, can an accounting and control system of a non-monetary nature be devised that would be approptirate for the management of an advanced industrial system?
- "It appears that the stage is now set for a critical examination of this problem, and that out of such inquries, if a catastrophic solution can be avoided, there can hardly fail to emerge what the historian of science, Thomas S. Kuhn, has called a major scientific and intellectual revolution."
- The following is from an article entitled "King Hubbert: Science's Don Quixote," in the February 1983 issue of Geophysics magazine, by Robert Dean Clark, assistant editor:
- "Hubbert has had serious health problems for several years. Both his eyesight and hearing now give him problems. But neither the ailments nor the recent adulation have eroded his zest for intellectual combat. In recent years, he has assaulted a target--which he labels the culture of money--that is gigantic even by Hubbert standards. His thesis is that society is seriously handicapped because its two most important intellectual underpinnings, the science of matter-energy and the historic system of finance, are incompatible. A reasonable co-existance is possible when both are growing at approximately the same rate. That, Hubbert says, has been happening since the start of the industrial revolution but it is soon going to end because the amount of [that the?] matter-energy system can grow is limited while money's growth is not.
- "'I was in New York in the 30s. I had a box seat at the depression,' Hubbert says. 'I can assure you it was a very educational experience. We shut the country down because of monetary reasons. We had manpower and abundant raw materials. Yet we shut the country down. We're doing the same kind of thing now but with a different material outlook. We are not in the position we were in 1929-30 with regard to the future. Then the physical system was ready to roll. This time it's not. We are in a crisis in the evolution of human socienty. It's unique to both human and geologic history. It has never happened before and it can't possibly happen again. You can only use oil once. You can only use metals once. Soon all the oil is going to be burned and all the metals mined and scattered.'
- "That is obviously a scenario of catastrophe, a possibility Hubbert concedes. But it is not one he forecasts. The man known to many as a pessimist is, in this case, quite hopeful. In fact, he could be the ultimate utopian. We have, he says, the necessary technology. All we have to do is completely overhaul our culture and find an alternative to money.
- "'We are not starting from zero,' he emphasizes. 'We have an enormous amount of existing technical knowledge. It's just a matter of putting it all together. We still have great flexibility but our maneuverability will diminish with time.'
- "A non-catastrophic solution is impossible, Hubbert feels, unless society is made stable. This means abandoning two axioms of our culture...the work ethic and the idea that growth is the normal state of life...."
- During his interview with Dr. Hubbert, Mr. Andrews asked him for his updated perspective, five years later, about his comments as quoted in the article above. He said:
- "our window of opportunity is slowly closing...at the same time, it probably requires a spiral of adversity. In other words, things have to get worse before they can get better. The most important thing is to get a clear picture of the situation we're in, and the outlook for the future--exhaustion of oil and gas, that kind of thing...and an appraisal of where we are and what the time scale is. And the time scale is not centuries, it's decades."
--Newuser2011 (talk) 21:16, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Technocracy Inc
The "Technocracy Incorporated" organization is not notable as far as I can see, and does not have it's own article, and seems hardly to exist. Noting this non-organisations support for post scarcity hence is also not notable. The organisations support for post-scarcity ideas is also not sourced. I'm removing these additions. --OpenFuture (talk) 22:49, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yes it does have several articles actually: Technocracy and Technocracy movement. You'd be hard pressed to find more notable people than Marion King Hubbert, co-founder of Technocracy Incorporated and co-author of the Technocracy Study Course, as well as the founding members of the Technical Alliance. All this is very well documented. Fresco was a former volunteer illustrator who contributed to a few Technocracy Incorporated publications but who later had a falling out with the Technocracy leadership and decided to go his own way to promote his architectural designs and views concerning creating a change in societal "values".Newuser2011 (talk) 02:54, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- The idea of technocracy is not the same as the movement, which is not the same as Technocracy Incorporated. Your claim is about Technocracy Incorporated, which seems to be a non-notable organisation. The claim that Technocracy Incorporated, or for that matter the technocracy movement, supports post scarcity is still unsourced. As such your addition violates two Wikipedia policies: WP:OR and WP:UNDUE. Please remove your additions. --OpenFuture (talk) 07:12, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- I want to understand what is going on here, we have to make it clear, we are suffering from misunderstanding. I read the document that Newuser2011 added to the references [1]. And I think, please correct me if I'm wrong, the reason why some says it advocates a Post-Scarcity is because it says we can achieve abundance.
- "The production problem has been solved, but people must now solve the problem of distributing abundance. (We do not dispute that large numbers of people today are going without, but from a Technocratic perspective, we contend this deprivation needs to be addressed by discarding our “Price System.”)"
- And I think the point that is making the confusion whether it is a post-scarcity or not, is the 'distribution'. The one's who says it's not about post-scarcity, points that the Energy Distribution Card makes a limitation on the purchasing power. ("The Energy Distribution Card represents equal, though not identical, purchasing power for every adult living on this continent.")
- But from what I understood, the one's who says Technocracy is about post-scarcity, is basing themselves that it eliminates the exchange method, people get things from "the abundant system", but they need to use the Energy Distribution Card to get it. (that limits them)
- "The Price System is simply a method of erratic The Energy Distribution Card exchange, in scarcity, it sufficed well enough as an exchange method; with enough to go around, it cannot even do that."
- Let me know if I'm wrong, and where I went wrong. Let's make it clear.
- I don't know if we will describe Technocracy as being a post-scarcity or not, but I think, even in the case of it not being considered a post-scarcity, we can put it somewhere in the article, explaining the differences. From what I understood, it is somewhat connected with the concepts of post-scarcity.
- --Arthurfragoso (talk) 19:19, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- It is not up to us to decide if it is post-scarcity or not. It is up to reliable sources to do so. The link does not mention post-scarcity. So the problems remain:
- 1. We have no reliable source claiming either the technocracy ideology, the technocracy movement or Technocracy Incorporated supports post scarcity. As such the section is unsourced.
- 2. Most of the section is about Technocracy Inc, not their possibly support of Post Scarcity.
- 3. Technocracy Inc is apparently not notable, and the section therefore gives undue wight to a non-notable minority position.
- Since Newuser2011 appears to want to engage in edit wars over this, I'm again asking him/her to self revert to show good faith.
- --OpenFuture (talk) 19:32, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- Obviously, Technocracy was the first ever "post-scarcity" advocator in the world. They where the first to realize that North America had more than 50% of the world's resources, and most of the installed industrial equipment and trained technical personnel in the world. Therefore, according to the Technocrats, there were or should be no scarce commodities on the North American Continent. This means the Continental Technate could distribute an abundance of goods and services to all North American Citizens without price, with responsible concern they do not waste their natural resources so as to ensure continued operation into the indefinite future. The Technate would provide goods to every North American Citizen well over his physical ability to consume. The Universal Identity Card, also known as the Distribution Certificate, is an accounting mechanism only, which the citizens would not even have to worry about. All this is made clear in any Technocracy literature. Some quotes among many:
GEARED TO SCARCITY
The Price System is geared to scarcity—can operate only with scarcity. If waste is necessary to maintain scarcity, then there will be as much waste as can be managed. But the development of extraneous energy, through first steam and then electricity, harnessed to the machines created by man's inventive genius, has made any necessity for scarcity
on the North American Continent forever a thing of the past. North Americans must learn to use the abundance they can create, or go down to defeat and chaos. To use it they must establish a complete distribution on a scientific basis forever divorced from price and profit.
— Lucy L. Barnes, 12247-3, "Wasted Kilowatts", The Northwest Technocrat, August 1945, p. 15.
There is a fairly definite limit to how many goods and services a single individual can consume, bearing in mind the fact that he lives only 24 hours a day, one-third of which he sleeps, and a considerable part of the remainder of which he works, loafs, plays, or indulges in other pursuits many of which do not involve a great physical consumption of goods. Let us recall that every individual in the society must be supplied, young and old alike. Since it is possible to set arbitrarily the rate of production at a quite high figure, it is entirely likely that the average potential consuming power per adult can be set higher than the average adult's rate of physical consumption. Since this is so, there is no point in introducing a differentiation in adult incomes in a manner characteristic of economies of scarcity.
From the point of view of simplicity of record-keeping, moreover, enormous simplification can be effected by making all adult incomes, male and female alike, equal. Thus, all adults above the age of 25 years would receive a large income, quite probably larger than they would find it convenient to spend. This income would continue without interruption until the death of the recipient.
— Marion King Hubbert, Howard Scott, Technocracy Inc., "Income", Technocracy Study Course, New York, 1st Edition, 1934; 5th Edition, 1940, 4th printing, July 1945, p. 236.
Each individual tells the Technate what shall be made, and the Functional Control says how it shall be made.
— Technocracy Incorporated, Technocracy in plain terms, 1939, p. 13.
- Fresco got some of the central concepts of his information from his experience in Technocracy, and Zeitgeist in turn got their ideas from Fresco. Guess which one of the three is way more notable? And yes obviously "Technocracy" and "Technocracy movement" and "Technical Alliance" and "Technocracy Incorporated" are all the same thing. OpenFuture you better do some more research before you ever set foot here again. Have a nice day. --Newuser2011 (talk) 21:16, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- I agree that Fresco's ideas simply are technocracy with pretty pictures. But neither me, nor you are reliable sources. Please learn more about Wikipedia policies, as linked to above. --OpenFuture (talk) 22:15, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fresco's ideas and Technocracy are worlds apart. While some of his information is from Technocracy a lot of it is very much at odds with what Technocracy is talking about. Both advocate "post-scarcity" however, that is obvious, and is not even up to debate. There are already hundreds of both first, second, and third party sources about Technocracy, with coverage spanning almost a century. This is not even up to debate. A lot more then either two of the other groups, which have no sources at all. Immediately take the tags off this group and put them on the other two if you have a minimum of integrity. Otherwise it is apparent you have an axe to grind against Technocracy and "post-scarcity". Anyways you asked for it, here are a couple quotations and some sources, right off the bat, obviously there being thousands of them it would be impossible to list them all here. I know all about Wikipedia policies. I couldn't care less what you have to say though, because you obviously don't really care about Wikipedia policy at all or anything else for that matter. Now go away please.
Technocracy:
Out of America's fascination with technology came another eccentric "reform" movement known as Technocracy. Founded in 1918 by a California patent attorney it would briefly flare as a serious intellectual movement centered around Columbia University; although as a mass-movement its real center was California where it claimed half a million members in 1934. Technocracy counted among its admirers such men as the novelist H.G. Wells, the author Theodore Dreiser and the economist Thorstein Veblen.
Technocracy held that all politics and all economic arrangements based on the "Price System" (i.e., based on traditional economic theory) were antiquated and that the only hope of building a successful modern world was to let engineers and other technology experts run the country on engineering principles. Technocracy's rallying cry was "production for use," which was meant as a contrast to production for profit in the capitalist system. Production for use became a slogan for many of the radical-left movements of the era. Upton Sinclair, among others, affirmed his belief in "production for use" and the Technocrats briefly made common cause with Sinclair, and even Huey Long, in California. But the Technocrats were not of the political left, as they held every political and economic system, from the left to the right, to be unsound.
The Technocrats believed that the solution to all problems of economic security were the same, the rigorous application of engineering principles in a system freed from the Price System. They conceived of retirement as being made possible at age 45 for everyone due to the vast prosperity the new age of Technocracy would usher in. Rejecting all forms of traditional political science, the Technocrats refused to even use standard geographical maps because their boundaries were political, so they would refer to states only by their geographical coordinates. Names, too, were suspect for some reason so members of the movement in California were designated only by numbers. A speaker at one California rally was introduced only as 1x1809x56!
Oddly enough, alone among this collection of radical movements of the 1930s, the Technocracy movement survives, if not quite thrives, into the present day.
Technocracy is a uniquely North American movement which had its inception in 1919 in New York City. It was founded by Howard Scott, an American engineer, who along with a number of other scientists and engineers, impressed by the results of the mobilization of resources and production during the First World War, organized a group known as the Technical Alliance. The Technical Alliance proposed to study the working of the entire social system, and elected Howard Scott to serve as Chief Engineer. They conducted a survey of North American energy and natural resources, and studied the corresponding industrial evolution that unfolded post-World War One. The group’s aim was to design a new system of production and distribution for continental North America that would provide a better standard of living while conserving non-renewable resources, ensuring ‘an economy of abundance’. The Technical Alliance was renamed Technocracy in 1930 and in 1932 its basic findings were published. In the fall of 1933, Technocracy was incorporated in New York State as a “nonsectarian, educational-research membership organization” (Technocracy Digest, No. 231, pp 4). American engineer W.H. Smith is credited with coining the term ‘technocracy’ which is derived from Greek language roots to convey the concept of ‘government by science’. Technocracy uses the Monad, an ancient generic symbol signifying balance, as its symbol.
Thus the importance of what the technocrats had to say was matched and even surpassed by the effect they had on public debates and on scientists, engineers, and businessmen. Although the majority of these people rejected the technocrats' ideas, they nevertheless were prodded by the popularity of the movement to explain their positions on technological unemployment and the decreasing need to work. One story is illustrative of the way the technocrats, despite their radicalism, did have a powerful effect in clarifying issues and forcing those around them to take a stand. Albert Einstein, the nation's adopted guru of mystic science, was visiting California at the time the technocrats were gaining celebrity status. The press approached the great man, hoping to tie two headline stories together in some way. But those who expected all scientists to speak with one voice about economic matters were disappointed; newspapermen were not able to proclaim Einstein a technocrat. Instead, his few words about technocracy were given relatively small play in the newspapers. What he did answer to reporters' questions spoke volumes and set the tone for how other scientists would respond. Einstein simply replied that "power as applied to production must not be halted, but at the same time, men must have work." These few words sum up the characteristic response of engineers, scientific managers, and orthodox economists. The ideas they expressed were reiterated time and again by technocracy's critics; but while elaborated in more complex detail, they were never expressed with such eloquent simplicity.
— Benjamin Hunnicutt, Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work, Temple University Press, 1990, p. 287.
The popularity of their movement was transient, but the Technocrats’ vision of reducing society to a single energy dial, to be adjusted objectively by social engineers, would recur in the field of ecology.
— Peter J. Taylor. Technocratic Optimism, H.T. Odum, and the Partial Transformation of Ecological Metaphor after World War II, "Journal of the History of Biology", Vol. 21, No. 2, June 1988, p. 214.
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http://www.oilcrisis.com/hubbert/monetary.htm
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http://web.archive.org/web/20010519213705/http://www.technocracy.org/articles/rescue.html
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http://books.google.com/books?id=_hJhH4gltXIC&source=gbs_navlinks_s
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http://www.archive.org/details/northamreview235miscrich
- Wood (Patrick), Editor of August Forecast & Review http://www.augustreview.com presents a 40 minute presentation on “Technocracy” at the Eagle Forum Convention, Saturday June 18, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul5oQ3wbstQ
--Newuser2011 (talk) 00:38, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- You still don't understand how Wikipedia works. It doesn't matter if I agree with you or not, so convincing me is pointless. You need to find reliable sources that support your additions, and you also need to find reliable sources to support Technocracy Internationals notability. You also need to write what your sources claim. Hence, if the source claims Technocracy International supports post-scarcity, then the article must claim that. If the source claims technocracy, as in the ideology, supports it, them we must state that. You do not have the power to decide that technocracy and Technocracy International are the same thing (a patently absurd statement in any case).
- Is there anything unclear with this? --OpenFuture (talk) 08:09, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- There is no such thing as "Technocracy International" or "Technocracy Internationals". I just gave you more reliable sources then you could ever read in your lifetime. These quotes randomly picked from the reliable sources above state what Technocracy is (a post-scarcity "government by science" divorced from the Price System, devised by Howard Scott and the original Technical Alliance), that Technocracy was legally incorporated in the state of New York in 1933 (hence the name of the research and education membership movement advocating Technocracy; Technocracy Incorporated), and why it is notable, all the other sources will confirm that, I will not repeat them again. Now for the last time go away and stay away, I will not be answering you again, your not an admin and never will be. --Newuser2011 (talk) 22:14, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Technocracy:
Out of America's fascination with technology came another eccentric "reform" movement known as Technocracy. Founded in 1918 by a California patent attorney it would briefly flare as a serious intellectual movement centered around Columbia University; although as a mass-movement its real center was California where it claimed half a million members in 1934. Technocracy counted among its admirers such men as the novelist H.G. Wells, the author Theodore Dreiser and the economist Thorstein Veblen.
Technocracy held that all politics and all economic arrangements based on the "Price System" (i.e., based on traditional economic theory) were antiquated and that the only hope of building a successful modern world was to let engineers and other technology experts run the country on engineering principles. Technocracy's rallying cry was "production for use," which was meant as a contrast to production for profit in the capitalist system. Production for use became a slogan for many of the radical-left movements of the era. Upton Sinclair, among others, affirmed his belief in "production for use" and the Technocrats briefly made common cause with Sinclair, and even Huey Long, in California. But the Technocrats were not of the political left, as they held every political and economic system, from the left to the right, to be unsound.
The Technocrats believed that the solution to all problems of economic security were the same, the rigorous application of engineering principles in a system freed from the Price System. They conceived of retirement as being made possible at age 45 for everyone due to the vast prosperity the new age of Technocracy would usher in. Rejecting all forms of traditional political science, the Technocrats refused to even use standard geographical maps because their boundaries were political, so they would refer to states only by their geographical coordinates. Names, too, were suspect for some reason so members of the movement in California were designated only by numbers. A speaker at one California rally was introduced only as 1x1809x56!
Oddly enough, alone among this collection of radical movements of the 1930s, the Technocracy movement survives, if not quite thrives, into the present day.
Technocracy is a uniquely North American movement which had its inception in 1919 in New York City. It was founded by Howard Scott, an American engineer, who along with a number of other scientists and engineers, impressed by the results of the mobilization of resources and production during the First World War, organized a group known as the Technical Alliance. The Technical Alliance proposed to study the working of the entire social system, and elected Howard Scott to serve as Chief Engineer. They conducted a survey of North American energy and natural resources, and studied the corresponding industrial evolution that unfolded post-World War One. The group’s aim was to design a new system of production and distribution for continental North America that would provide a better standard of living while conserving non-renewable resources, ensuring ‘an economy of abundance’. The Technical Alliance was renamed Technocracy in 1930 and in 1932 its basic findings were published. In the fall of 1933, Technocracy was incorporated in New York State as a “nonsectarian, educational-research membership organization” (Technocracy Digest, No. 231, pp 4). American engineer W.H. Smith is credited with coining the term ‘technocracy’ which is derived from Greek language roots to convey the concept of ‘government by science’. Technocracy uses the Monad, an ancient generic symbol signifying balance, as its symbol.
Thus the importance of what the technocrats had to say was matched and even surpassed by the effect they had on public debates and on scientists, engineers, and businessmen. Although the majority of these people rejected the technocrats' ideas, they nevertheless were prodded by the popularity of the movement to explain their positions on technological unemployment and the decreasing need to work. One story is illustrative of the way the technocrats, despite their radicalism, did have a powerful effect in clarifying issues and forcing those around them to take a stand. Albert Einstein, the nation's adopted guru of mystic science, was visiting California at the time the technocrats were gaining celebrity status. The press approached the great man, hoping to tie two headline stories together in some way. But those who expected all scientists to speak with one voice about economic matters were disappointed; newspapermen were not able to proclaim Einstein a technocrat. Instead, his few words about technocracy were given relatively small play in the newspapers. What he did answer to reporters' questions spoke volumes and set the tone for how other scientists would respond. Einstein simply replied that "power as applied to production must not be halted, but at the same time, men must have work." These few words sum up the characteristic response of engineers, scientific managers, and orthodox economists. The ideas they expressed were reiterated time and again by technocracy's critics; but while elaborated in more complex detail, they were never expressed with such eloquent simplicity.
— Benjamin Hunnicutt, Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work, Temple University Press, 1990, p. 287.
The popularity of their movement was transient, but the Technocrats’ vision of reducing society to a single energy dial, to be adjusted objectively by social engineers, would recur in the field of ecology.
— Peter J. Taylor. Technocratic Optimism, H.T. Odum, and the Partial Transformation of Ecological Metaphor after World War II, "Journal of the History of Biology", Vol. 21, No. 2, June 1988, p. 214.
- Your continued violating of Wikipedia policies make discussion pointless, as you are not engaging in constructive discussion, but instead edit-warring. --OpenFuture (talk) 00:21, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- I'm also seeing the edit-war, but I'm also trying to understand this. I have some questions, OpenFuture, you wrote before:
- - "We have no reliable source claiming either the technocracy ideology, the technocracy movement or Technocracy Incorporated supports post scarcity. As such the section is unsourced." --OpenFuture
- would this be a reliable source?
- "Technocracy is a proposal for a steady-state, post-scarcity economic system. It is intended for industrialized nations with sufficient natural, technological, and human resources to produce an economic abundance. Primarily this refers to the continent of North America, but may also apply to other areas today as well if they have achieved certain minimum criteria."[2]
- would this be a reliable source?
- or: technocracy.org -> Nature: Moving Toward Resource-Based Economy
- if it's not a reliable source, why would you claim it's not? --Arthurfragoso (talk) 01:07, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- See WP:RS. We don't know who wrote it or published the first text, it's published on a random webpage on the net. Anyone can set up a website claiming anything. So no, it's not a reliable source. The second text is much better, but doesn't support the claim. OpenFuture (talk) 07:28, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- Can we write: "Some (sources) says Technocracy is a Post-scarcity <ref>...</ref>" ? or something similar? --Arthurfragoso (talk) 14:04, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- No, we need reliable sources. --OpenFuture (talk) 17:18, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Advocators section
The "Advocators" section is just describing the advocators. I don't see how that is relevant for the article at all, and suggest we remove it. --OpenFuture (talk) 08:11, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- After reading Talk:Post_scarcity#The_Zeitgeist_Movement, I thought we should show how other groups relates with a post-scarcity. I couldn't think about a better word to describe those groups, so I though, if I used the word "Advocators", someone else could change it to a better word that would fit it better. You can change that word, or we can edit each small section of each group to show it better how each group relate with a post-scarcity. If you decide to remove the section, we should at least write somewhere else in the article that The Zeitgeist Movement and The Venus Project is related with the post-scarcity (aka. Resource-Based Economy) --Arthurfragoso (talk) 13:08, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- Showing that they are related can be as simple as "See also" links. We could also just mention Zeitgeist and TVP in the lead. --OpenFuture (talk) 15:37, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- The thing that is strange about all this is that, if you go to the article Resource-based economy or Resource based economy you will be redirected to Post-scarcity. I'm not sure, but from what I know, Jacque Fresco was the one who came up with the term "Resource-based economy", and he talks so much about it to the article. And then we are redirected to a article called "Post-scarcity" that doesn't even mention "Resource-based economy" nor Fresco, so I had to add it. I think if we keep the redirect to post-scarcity, we should at least mention RBE and Fresco. Otherwise I think we should remove the redirect and have a article for RBE, but it's the same thing. RBE = Post-scarcity. Isn't it? From what I see, there is a little difference on how we see each term. Maybe another point on removing the redirect is that the term RBE is getting more popular then Post-scarcity. What are your thoughts on it? --Arthurfragoso (talk) 17:00, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- Well, I think RBE should be redirected to The Venus Project, as those are the ones using the term as far as I can ascertain. Fresco doesn't really explain what RBE is, he just uses it as a magical buzzword, but it's clear that it is some form of post-scarcity, that doesn't use money but energy tokens (ie money). --OpenFuture (talk) 17:06, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- From what I understood the RBE that fresco talks about doesn't use energy tokens. [3] from what I understood, who uses energy tokens was the technocratics... I think rather than redirect to The Venus Project, I think it should have an independent article, because we could have a RBE different then the models from TVP, and because now The Zeitgeist Movement advocates the same thing even being separated from TVP. Also the Spanish, French, and Russian articles names that are linked to post-scarcity is RBE. I think it should have a separated article to don't make too much confusion. --Arthurfragoso (talk) 19:03, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- If you can find other notable meanings of RBE, then sure, there should be a separate article. As long as it is something used only by TVP/ZG (separate or not) a separate article from TVP is not needed, especially since TVP does not adequately define RBE in a meaningful or consistent way. I'm pretty sure I've seen references to energy tokens is some other TVP writings, but it's unimportant. It could get it's own article even if only TVP uses it, if you can find some sort of actual description of what it means and how it should work, which is not just loose blabbering about not using money. :-) --OpenFuture (talk) 19:50, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- Other sources talking about a RBE before TVP became famous makes me question if it's used only by TVP and TZM. Technocracy - Nature: Moving Toward Resource-Based Economy(1994) I'd like to see what other wikipedia users have to say about the "Advocators" section and/or about the making or not Resource Based Economy an independent article. I think if we decide to leave RBE redirecting to Post-scarcity, we could remove the Advocators section and add a line like: "The Zeitgeist Movement and The Venus Project advocates a Resource Based Economy (Post-scarcity) <ref>...</ref>" or something like this somewhere in the article. --Arthurfragoso (talk) 15:29, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- Nice. It still of course, as all of these resources, fail in explaining what RBE is, but at least it does mean that an independent article is starting to make more sense. You don't happen to have any resource that explain what RBE is, as opposed to just complain about the perceived shortcomings of any other system? --OpenFuture (talk) 17:32, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not the best writer to make a whole new article, but I may get it started if you agree. maybe some sources could be: “A resource-based economy is a society without money, barter or trade, with the awareness that Humanity is One family and where technology, science and spirituality is used to it’s fullest to develop and manage the planet’s resources to provide abundance for everyone in the most sustainable way.” [4] and The Venus Project FAQ, I think we can get other sources, and with some time more people will contribute. --Arthurfragoso (talk) 19:18, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- The first source is yet again an (anonymously?) self-published source, and can't be used. The Venus project FAQ doesn't explain what RBE is, except in the sort of language you use above, which is only a string of nice-sounding words chained together. There is no explanation of how it will work, or how their ideas of not having money would result in this utopia they describe. The description is a "negational" one in that it only explains what RBE is not, but fails to explain what it is.
- I think however, that we can make a disambiguation page, as the term is sometimes used to mean the economy of a country whose main production comes from natural resources. --OpenFuture (talk) 06:34, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- Said and done: Resource-based economy. If this is acceptable we should as a second step redirect all other versions, such as Resource-Based Economy to that disambiguation page. --OpenFuture (talk) 07:01, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- Great Job! I redirected all the other pages to that disambiguation page. Now we need to decide about the "Advocators" section, should we just remove it and just let them in the "See also"? --Arthurfragoso (talk) 13:28, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- Works for me. --OpenFuture (talk) 13:39, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
Requested move
Post scarcity → Post-scarcity – Better English and WP:COMMONNAME --OpenFuture (talk) 19:03, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
- Oppose. Per WP:AT, article titles should be nouns; this should be Post-scarcity economy or similar. Powers T 20:48, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
- Fair enough. --OpenFuture (talk) 21:01, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Requested Move 2
- The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the move request was: moved to Post-scarcity economy. Favonian (talk) 22:48, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Post scarcity → Post-scarcity economy – Post-scarcity is a compound word and should have a hyphen. "Economy" should be added to make the word a proper noun. --OpenFuture (talk) 11:37, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
- Support, though "Post-scarcity economy" is not (nor should it be) a proper noun. Powers T 12:55, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
- Hehe right, I meant "real noun". :-) --OpenFuture (talk) 13:22, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
- Support Nouns generally preferable to adjectives when possible. Though I wonder if "society" would be equally appropriate. --Cybercobra (talk) 21:15, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
- Scarcity is an economic concept, not a social one. There may be social effects from the post-scarcity economy, but the basic concept involves economic theory. Powers T 14:07, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
Removal of links from 'See also'
This comment is regarding the recent removal of two links from the 'See also' section.
Please refer to the WP policy on 'See also':
Contents: A bulleted list, preferably alphabetized, of internal links to related Wikipedia articles. {{Portal}} and {{Wikipedia-Books}} links are usually placed in this section. Consider using {{Columns-list}} if the list is lengthy.
Editors should provide a brief annotation when a link's relevance is not immediately apparent, when the meaning of the term may not be generally known, or when the term is ambiguous. For example:
- Related person—made a similar achievement on April 4, 2005
- Ischemia—restriction in blood supply
Whether a link belongs in the "See also" section is ultimately a matter of editorial judgment and common sense. The links in the "See also" section should be relevant, should reflect the links that would be present in a comprehensive article on the topic, and should be limited to a reasonable number. As a general rule the "See also" section should not repeat links which appear in the article's body or its navigation boxes. Thus, many high-quality, comprehensive articles do not have a "See also" section.
The links in the "See also" section do not have to be directly related to the topic of the article, because one purpose of the "See also" links is to enable readers to explore topics that are only peripherally relevant. The "See also" section should not link to pages that do not exist (red links) nor to disambiguation pages.
OpenFuture's recent removal of Arthurfragoso's two links are in clear violation of this policy.
Regards, IjonTichyIjonTichy (talk) 15:01, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you for calling this section "Censorship". That's exactly what it is. I am a part of the select group of powerful people who decide what goes on Wikipedia, and what does not, and we do indeed censor Wikipedia to make sure The Truth does not come to public attention, as the public couldn't not handle The Truth as it would litelly convert their brains into sugar-cotton. No Wikipedia policies have however been violated in this process, as you can see. Us censors would never violate Wikipedia policy. After all, we wrote it. Since we have the power to censor Wikipedia, we obviously have the power to write the policies, that's self-evident.
- Now if you want to discuss the issue without ridiculous hyperbole, personal attacks and unfounded claims about policy, you are welcome. But you already on other articles have declared that you refuse to have constructive discussions with anyone who disagrees with you, so I don't have much hope of that. --OpenFuture (talk) 15:20, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
OpenFuture, we'd appreciate a short explanation as to why you removed the links. Ijon, you're citing a style guideline, not a policy, and even if it were policy, it has not been violated. As it says, See also links are a matter of editorial judgment. If us editors disagree on what links to keep, we discuss it. And it was really inappropriate to call this censorship, you're not going to win any points for being overly dramatic. — Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 16:14, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
- That's good feedback Jeraphine. In response to your feedback, I've changed the title of this section.
- You've mentioned that if we disagree on what links to keep, we discuss it. Yes, I fully agree with you on this. Please note that there was no discussion on this talk page before the links were removed. It is my understanding that WP policies, rules, guidelines and regulations make it very clear that, in the vast majority of cases, it is much preferred to discuss first before deleting, not the other way around.
- Regards, IjonTichyIjonTichy (talk) 16:33, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
- Any edits can be made without discussion, including any removals of content. Discussion should happen when it's clear that editors disagree with each other. OpenFuture said in their last edit summary that the links are not related to post-scarcity. I'm not sure right now what my own opinion is. — Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 16:53, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
- I removed the links for the reason stated in the edit summary: Those articles bear no relation to this subject whatsoever as far as I can see. This article is about a hypothetical economical model (which most economics agree is simply impossible), the other is a workgroup and a report on what the current environmental issues can have for impact on society. I completely fail to see how they are relevant to each other. --OpenFuture (talk) 19:45, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Rename
As stated in this very article, "post-scarcity economy" is an oxymoron. Rename the article to just "post-scarcity", as it used to be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.224.76.160 (talk) 00:50, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
In Fiction: Dune as post-scarcity dystopia?
I question the inclusion of Dune as a post-scarcity dystopian society. The "Duniverse" is neither. There are phenomenally rich individuals and families, who own entire planets or systems, but the great majority of people in the fictional universe live what we would consider "normal" lives, working for a living in every imaginable social stratum. There is no assurance of plenty for any but the very wealthy. And the most important resource, spice, is indeed scarce. It is also not a dystopia. Most of society is very functional, and there is, as in the real world, a mixture of positive and negative factors in most individuals' lives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.191.166.202 (talk) 19:11, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
I was about to post the same thing. Its not post-scarcity, even if it is docile and declining. The universe was post-scarcity and then their machines rebelled and now the rebellious humans have become docile of their own accord. The entire book is specifically about a manipulation of a crucial and limited supply of spice, and of water.--Ollyoxenfree (talk) 00:44, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
Why were External Links removed? I found them of use
External links:
- The (Needed) New Economics of Abundance
- The Economics of Abundance
- The Venus Project
- The Tragically Neglected Economics of Abundance
- The Energy Distribution Card, a Technocracy Technate suggestion for a post scarcity economy
- A Place To Live In. Wilton Ivie Technocracy Digest Nov.1955.
- The Economics of Science Fiction
- The Post-Scarcity / Culture of Abundance Reading List v2.2
- The Gift Economy. Writings and videos of Genevieve Vaughan and associated scholars.
- Infinity Is Your Friend in Economics - contains links to a series of Techdirt articles on economics when scarcity is removed
- Nanofactory Regulation - ideas on managing post-scarcity through extensive DRM-like legal restrictions on nanofactories
- Imagining Futures, Dramatizing Fears - classic science fiction stories about highly automated societies, most of them pessimistic
- Automating Feminism - Paragraphs 20-28 (and footnotes 12-20) discuss interest in post-scarcity amongst the New Left in the 1960s/1970s
- Post-Scarcity Princeton - Post Scarcity perambulations by Paul Fernhout
- AdCiv.org - Post Scarcity through Open Design and Advanced Automation
- Sharewiki collects theoretical and practical information on how to bring about post scarcity and live in abundance through (universal) sharing
- The Postscarcity Institute
- The Zeitgeist Movement
- Reddit Post-Scarcity Community
Edited the Economics Section to properly reflect Communist Economics
The economic section was labouring under a popular understanding of communism, I have changed it to fit an understanding shared by actual communists. I removed the reference to socialism because it was irrelevant and even a brief look-over the socialism wiki page would lead one to see the errors in the previous description of it. That said, if anyone has any problems with my actions I am happy to reconsider should that be necessary.--Ollyoxenfree (talk) 04:28, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
- Your edits rely on primary sources and original research. Moreover, the concept of "Bourgeois socialism" articulated by Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto defines it as essentially elements of the bourgeois who seek social reform (he goes on to list humanitarians, charity workers, etc.). Nowhere does the source indicate that "bourgeois socialism" is associated with the concept of post-scarcity and that "actual" Communists reject post-scarcity. The Marxist view of upper-stage communism implies a "superabundance" of goods and services, which makes possible the social relations of free access and distribution based on needs. While you are correct to note that post-scarcity is NOT the definition of a communist society, post-scarcity (or "abundance") is a necessary feature of Marx's concept of upper-stage communism.
- The removed secondary source cited, Comparing Economic Systems in the Twenty-First Century, clearly stated that the Marxist concept of communism entailed: "Communism, the highest stage of social and economic development, would be characterized by the absence of markets and money and by abundance, distribution according to need, and the withering away of the state…". Therefore I have restored the material that was removed from this section and removed original research pertaining to "bourgeois socialism". -Battlecry 04:07, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
- I have removed it, because the source doesn't actually support that position. bobrayner (talk) 19:42, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
- Marxian economics is an economic paradigm that supports the concept of the possibility of post-scarcity, therefore it deserves mention in an economics section of this article (as does any other economic school of thought that calls for or analyzes post-scarcity). Also, how does the source not support the position?
- It is well known in the economics profession that the hypothetical communist system is predicated upon superabundance and overcoming scarcity (consequently that is why the vision of communism is shunned by mainstream economists who reject the very possibility of post-scarcity). -Battlecry 23:32, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
Information original research
Removed a bunch of original research and tagged uncited un sourced information from the article. This article needs to be reorganized and more cited information used. It was reading as a speculative blog and is still so needs further cutting of information and putting better cited information in. Earl King Jr. (talk) 03:00, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
- The diff is here, in case anybody can ref the info.Jonpatterns (talk) 12:22, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
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