Edit: Changed title to be more accurate.

Also here is the summary from Wikipedia on what Post-scarcity means:

Post-scarcity is a theoretical economic situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even freely. Post-scarcity does not mean that scarcity has been eliminated for all goods and services but that all people can easily have their basic survival needs met along with some significant proportion of their desires for goods and services. Writers on the topic often emphasize that some commodities will remain scarce in a post-scarcity society.

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    If you have enough information you have noise, and hence less information. It actually does not work like electricity or any other physics phenomenon.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah but that doesn’t get rid of the fact that the information it self is still easily reproducible. What you are saying is that there still needs to be effort in curating information, but you aren’t saying that there is a cost of reproducing information.

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      9 months ago

      Is a library noise just cause there’s a lot of information in there? We’re talking about a user being allowed to reach out and copy and modify information, presumably from a curated source they trust.