Can you 'live long and prosper' by learning economics from Star Trek? Or is that 'highly illogical?' - Phys.org.

Illogical.

#postscarcity #startrek

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-prosper-economics-star-trek-highly.html

Can you 'live long and prosper' by learning economics from Star Trek? Or is that 'highly illogical?'

It might seem worlds away from the Earth we know. But can "Star Trek" teach us anything about the economics of our own society?

đŸ€ž The tomorrow I manage to get some re-writing and consolidation of some of the main bulk of the concept descriptions.

#Postscarcity #Sustainability #WWIII

#PeanutsManifesto 0.9.8.4-RC
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I know no dystopia that envisioned this possibility. https://x.com/mikiane/status/2030746128946237684

Translation below. #postscarcity #wealthSharing #States

Michel Levy Provençal (@mikiane) on X

Il y a une semaine j'Ă©crivais qu'on entrait dans un nĂ©o-fĂ©odalisme oĂč les seigneurs de l'IA dĂ©cideront seuls de redistribuer ou non. L'État, privĂ© de cotisations, perdra tout pouvoir de coercition. Les Carnegie, les MĂ©dicis, au sens propre. Et bien on y est. âŹ‡ïž

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It seems like to me what all the major reactionary illiberal movements of the 21st century share in common. Whether it's Dugin's 4th political theory or the neoreactionaries within the US. All share in common the idea that the entirety of the enlightenment is a failure and the only alternative is to return to what preceded it.

It seems like to me they have essentially taken the liberal end of History that all alternatives have been tried and failed one step further. By concluding that liberalism is also a failure and the only alternative is to return to what came before liberalism. To tradition.

Honestly I genuinely think the liberal end of History that was declared at the end of the Cold war was one of the worst messages that could have been delivered on the global scale. Since it was a fundamentally conservative message that killed off any radical imagination. Any imagination of achieving a post scarcity future beyond capitalism.

What we need to do is revive the future. To show the possibility that we can achieve a post scarcity civilization beyond capitalism. If liberalism represents the present and reactionary illiberalism represents the past we must represent the future.

#liberalism #illiberalism #postscarcity #futurism #reactionaries

A person sleeps on cardboard boxes in a garden near the main bus station in Madrid, the capital of Spain.
Science communicators on AI say that in the future there will be a universal basic income for all those who are excluded because they lose their jobs due to the advancement of AI.
​#UniversalBasicIncome #AIRevolution #FutureOfWork #AutomationEconomy #UbiNow #ArtificialIntelligence #LaborMarketShift #TechDisruption #EconomicJustice #PostScarcity

“I don’t think we can all be working 15-hour weeks right now. But is the right number 25? 35?”

Don’t forget the human capacity to generate nearly illimitable make-work.

#postscarcity

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/24065976/economists-post-scarcity-abundance-industrial-revolution-socialism-capitalism

A utopian strand of economic thought is making a surprising comeback

Silicon Valley thinks artificial intelligence can help usher in a future utopia where work isn’t a necessity of life. But overcoming the scarcity mentality is mainly a political project.

Vox

A World Without Work?

"...there are too few jobs for too many people. But it ignores the actual sources of this trend: deindustrialization, depressed investment, and ultra-wealthy elites who stand in the way of a post-scarcity society."

#postscarcity

https://dissentmagazine.org/article/a-world-without-work/

A World Without Work? - Dissent Magazine

Contemporary automation discourse responds to a real, global trend: there are too few jobs for too many people. But it ignores the actual sources of this trend: deindustrialization, depressed investment, and ultra-wealthy elites who stand in the way of a post-scarcity society.

Dissent Magazine

This.

This is why I focus on food.

This is why I'm building apparatus and infrastructure for me and my neighbors to have free food. Post-scarcity food.

It isn't "being kind". It isn't "out of the goodness of my heart" or "altruism". Or any other dismissive infantilization. (I do care. People should be kind. We *can* take care of each other out of love and support and we should! But I fucking hate that dismissive bullshit attitude from folks who idealize greed and power and oppression).

I build mutual aid to remove the leverage of those that exploit and harm others.

Here is a perfect example of what I am fighting: ICE is using starving kids - a situation they and the people that deploy them have intentionally created - to kidnap and exploit kids.

If everyone was fed, they couldn't use this leverage. (If everyone had universal healthcare, corporations would lose one more means of exploitation. Et cetera, et al.)

Food is power dynamics.
To be fed is to be free.

#solarPunk #mutualAid #postScarcity #foodSecurity #ICE

https://meidasnews.com/news/minnesota-elementary-school-sends-urgent-message-as-ice-sends-flyers-offering-food-support-to-families

From the foreword: "Today, Respecting Our Elders is an all-volunteer nonprofit with no paid staff and an annual budget of just $25,000. Yet it distributes $4-5 million in food annually."

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Solution-Hunger-America-All-Volunteer-ebook/dp/B0G4XJ86DP?ref_=ast_author_mpb

Partial list of what I've seen, last 2 (ie, Christmas and New Year's) weeks (remember, the volunteers pick up food from grocery stores etc EVERY DAY except Christmas Day and I think Thanksgiving Day), so I only see a fraction:

Avocados. Fresh organic herbs (tarragon, basil, mint, marjoram). Organic mandarin oranges. Guavas, starfruit, papayas. Precut fruit trays. Lots of sushi (a friend says, "Lots of people want hot food in winter, but sushi's cold"). Fancy mushrooms in gorgeous condition (oyster, lion's mane, maitake, shitaake). Diestel brand turkeys, both cooked and raw. Candy canes, trays of stuffing, tubs of ready-made gravy. Eggs (free range & organic), milk, yogurt, ice cream, nondairy frozen treats.

#Marin #MarinCounty #hunger #food #FoodRescue #PostScarcity

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