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On 8 June 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved from Post-scarcity economy to Post-scarcity. The result of the discussion was moved.

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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.

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

Post-scarcity 3D printing

could an example of real life post scarcity related to the advent of 3D printing, 3D printed homes, be added as a section to this page? 72.186.120.149 (talk) 06:28, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Scientific impossibility

Surely there should be something on this page about how blatantly unscientific this idea is. According to the laws of thermodynamics, it is impossible to have an infinite supply of usable energy (or, indeed, any other commodity since there is only a finite amount of matter in the observable universe). Unless these people actually believe it’s possible to somehow transcend the physical universe, it doesn’t make sense why they think a world with unlimited resources is in any way realistic. 2600:1014:B082:EFEC:4076:52A5:F7C9:8BF2 (talk) 01:26, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]