Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson
“I’m very sympathetic to the concept of post-scarcity, and reducing the need for human labor wherever it’s feasible; but it requires that 1) the new labor-saving technologies be free and open source, and 2) that all the efficiencies be passed onto either consumers, or workers through shorter hours for the same pay, and not enclosed for rents. When the decisions of what new technologies to adopt and how to integrate them into the production process are made in the fundamentally irrational atmosphere of an absentee-owned, hierarchically organized organization, the outcome is just the opposite of post-scarcity.” (08/04/25)