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I spent the last three weeks in Seoul, partly visiting family I hadn’t seen in years and partly taking a vacation from my usual work in my usual city in my usual context of life. While I haven’t been able to work much at all, I spent my subway rides and waiting-in-line times reading the Singularity Sky series of novels by Charles Stross. These stories unfold in a post-singularity world with a multi-planetary human civilization. One of the central ideas that Stross explores in the series is the idea of economic scarcity. Is it necessary? What happens as technology chips away at it slowly but surely over time? What’s its relationship to human conflict? In a post-scarcity world, how does wealth accumulate? What meaning does money and wealth have? It’s really an excellent series, and you should read it if you find any of these questions intriguing. Exploring this post-scarcity universe (I’m still deep in the middle of it) made me question my personal conceptions of scarcity and how it infl

I spent the last three weeks in Seoul, partly visiting family I hadn't seen in years and partly taking a vacation from my usual work in my usual city in my usual context of life. While I haven't been able to work much at all, I spent my subway rides and waiting-in-line times reading the Singularity Sky series of novels by Charles Stross. These stories unfold in a post-singularity world with a multi-planetary human civilization. One of the central ideas that Stross explores in the series is the idea of economic scarcity . Is it necessary? What happens as technology chips away at it slowly but s

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