Post scarcity economics fiction and non fiction

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The most obvious point though is that if a transition to what we call post-scarcity does occur there are certain socioeconomic systems that would be ill-equipped to adapt for the change. A system whereby being unemployed or lacking marketable skills was judged as a failure of the individual, and therefore not something society should spent resources helping, is not one in which a transition would occur smoothly for the majority of people. Personally I think a Keynesian social democracy set up would be much better but IRL those societies are few which sucks for more reasons than "in case we transition to post-scarcity"
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Two more articles about the coming transition..
http://hplusmagazine.com/2013/05/16/huma...ics-of-ai/

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/arch...ts/267135/