[andai]

I want to say "we structured the system like that, right?", i.e. maximize profit at all costs.

But it seems to be the natural outcome of the incentives, of an organization made of organisms in an entropy-based simulation.

i.e. the problem might be slightly deeper than an economic or political model. That being said, we might see something approximating post-scarcity economics in our lifetimes, which will be very interesting.

In the meantime... we might fiddle with the incentives a bit ;)

[als0]

> we might see something approximating post-scarcity economics in our lifetimes

Can you elaborate more on this? All I see is growing inequality.

[hamdingers]

The upper arm of the K shaped economy uses their capital to invent and control the replicator and the lower arm dies off? Seems like the most realistic path to "post-scarcity" from where we're standing now.