User blog comment:Yuy168/Why Post-Scarcity Doesn't Work/@comment-4844180-20140131234206/@comment-4364108-20140201001052

On weapons, I would like to say that although the Post-Scarcity society would likely be peaceful, the people around them are gonna want in on their deal and go to war with them. Also population WILL increase the more resources there are. A world with unlimited resources would allow for an unlimited population. Resources will always be limited though. Government is also an economic and political thing. The Social Contract with the government doens't work with post-scarcity. The Government has to provide the people something in return for protection and laws. In a post scarcity economy this will simply cause resentment among the population since the government would have to do this by limiting what coudl be unlimited.

The more important thing is that this type of economy it being flat out impossible. It's just not how the universe works.