Abundance Essays Part 5: Maintaining Market Forces Through the Age of Automation
For Capitalism to continue working its magic, we must maintain robust competition between companies that produce critical goods and services.
Technology
Abundance Essays Part 4: What will humans do in a world of abundance?
In a world of abundance humans will focus on relationships, family, and developing their crafts of choice.
Abundance Essays Part 3: Roadblocks to Abundance
Abundance isn’t inevitable. There are active and passive ways
Abundance Essays Part 2: Price collapse, the inevitable trajectory of capitalism
Market forces are potent forces that decrease prices and increase productivity over time. If these forces are allowed to act indefinitely, with proper guardrails, there should be no end to how low prices can go. No limit on the productivity of humanity.
Abundance Essays Part 1: Abundance is closer than it appears
Technological advancement is accelerating, making a future of abundance more possible with every passing day.
Why decentralization matters
Decentralization comes with trade offs, but solves some sticky problems for humanity.
How to safely open the internet to children
Parents should have more choice over what their children see online.
Energy abundance: the green endgame
Green energy will create abundance in the world, it just has the side effect of mitigating climate change.
Serious environmentalism includes Tesla, nuclear, and desalination
If we really care about humanity’s future, we should take the world as it is and lean into what works.
Universal price collapse
We are three near-future technologies away from universal price collapse.