User blog:Yuy168/Why Post-Scarcity Doesn't Work

Post Scarcity is both highly unrealistic and the antithesis to any form of government or structured society and here is why.

In A World Where Post-Scarcity is the Norm...
Taxes don't work. Government can't regulate it's citizens because nothing has any value. There are no classes because nothing has any value, or is all of equal value. A truly post scarcity government would have to restrict weapons because they would be just as abundant as everything else, that creates a limit on weapons and it's no longer post-scarcity since weapons would be valuable then. Since everything is cheap or free, most people don't have any reason to go to work. Suddenly years of genetic hardwiring for living in a scarcity world is moot. People are going to be bored, angry, and depressed even though everything is cheap and free. It all eventually leads to societal collapse.

Why it Doesn't Work in The First Place
We live in a limited universe. The faster any species can harvest their resources, the higher the population can grow and the higher demand gets. These resources are all limited and will never reach a "Post-Scarcity" level on any siginificant scale since the need for the resources increases exponentially. If you were a civilization of computers you would still have to get electricity to run your computers somehow, and energy is a limited resource. Post-scarcity is simply physically impossible.