If solved
Abundance (post-scarcity)
Energy, food, materials and everyday labour become so cheap and plentiful that everyone's basic needs are met.
Open in the interactive tree →Clean energy at almost no running cost, factories that build from cheap materials, closed material loops and robots for routine work would push the price of basic goods towards the price of their raw materials. Whether that ends scarcity also depends on how the gains are shared: land, attention and status stay scarce.
What it brings
- Basic needs met for everyone
- Work chosen rather than needed
- More people and resources for research and culture