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BASICS What are the main goals of the different economic systems? ART What is ART? Who are the RAT, TAR, and TRAP? LIES What are the four things keeping Post-Scarcity from occurring? LEAD How can we transition to Post-Scarcity? ERROR What will change as a result? TRUE What is really EVIL? What is really TRUE?

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BASICS

STEP 1: Start to Evaluate Purpose

Avoid making choices based on what is
Embracing Adolescent Sentimentality
& Immature Economic Rules.
Learn the Best Available System
Integrating Commerce & Sharing.

The Ages of Economics:

The economy is less confusing if you assume
there are three different types of economies with conflicting goals.



The Age of Scarcity is ruled by
the classic laws of supply and demand.
Goal:
-Provide for you and yours.



The Age of Artificial Scarcity is ruled by
regulated supply and manufactured demand.
Goal:
-Manufacture goods to keep people happy.
-Create jobs to keep people busy.



The Age of Post-Scarcity is ruled by
adequate supply through efficient distribution
and responsible demand.

GOAL:
-Get and Give freely.
-Own what we use, use what we Own.
-Act like an ADULT and be treated like an ADULT.
-LIMITLESS information gives LIMITLESS possibilities.

This is an informal proposal for the transition
from Artificial Scarcity to Post-Scarcity.

As opposed to the
external and often violent transition
into the Age of Artificial Scarcity,
Making the Age of Post-Scarcity is
a highly internal shift in perception and priority
on a personal and political level.

Giving and Getting

Giving is often confused for Enabling
Enabling steals responsibility, crippling the recipient.
Think of Giving as unconditional sharing that hurts neither party.

Getting is often confused with Taking.
Instead of depriving others, Getting shares wealth.
Values increase as Networks grow and Utility is multiplied.
Everyone gets more and what they have is worth more.

Own

SPOILS

The Perfect Artificial Scarcity Template
aims to keep the workforce busy
trading the highest quality labor they can do
for an endless subscription
to cheap addictive sustenance and entertainment.

In turn, people ardently defend their addiction to
Spendable, Consumable, & Atrophic Machinations of
Planned Obsolescence & Occupying but Rootless quality products and an
Insipid, Myopic, & Poisonous Artificially Scarcity/Secretive Entrenchment of
Limiting, Immature, Toxic, Ignominious, Onerous, Under-tested, & Scapegoating
Subordination, Emaciated Control, Taxation, & Stratification.



It is a SCAM of POOR quality products and an IMPASSE of LITIGIOUS SECTS.

Instead of making SPARES we settle for SPOILS.

SPARES

SMART
Sustainably Manufacture and Acquire the Resources and Tools:
Instead of buying
Whatever I Don’t GIVE/GET Enough of To be Satisfied,
slowly buy shares of the business
until Ownership and consumption ratios are equal.

Other Owners find ways to increase our dependency and their profits,
whereas we will create ways to charge ourselves less for WIDGETS.



PICK
Pliant, Intelligent, & Cooperative Knowledge:
Adapt knowledge constantly.
Learn from the mistakes of others and yourself.
Share your process so that others may learn.
There’s less liability if operating with full disclosure.

AGED
Appreciate Gracefully, Evolve Dynamically:
The Community/Owners, Management/Personnel, & Audience/Network
become more Invested, Educated, and Skilled over time.
COMPANIES mature and the SMART PICK AGED.

RICH
Responsibility leads to wise Investments
Instincts lead to developing Discipline.
Cooperative leads to real Earnings.
Honesty leads to free Assistance.

EAT
Efficient, Abundant, & Thankful:
Judge the efficiency of a company by it’s generosity.
Businesses can afford Indulging others if they are
Sustainable, Pliant, Evolving, Cooperative, Intelligent, & Appreciating Leaders.
The better the quality of its charity, the better the COMPANY should be.
Products will have a lower upkeep and higher quality for everyone.



SMALL
Synergistic Modularity And Less Labor:
Work in focused divisions to maximize subjective qualities to
Prioritize & Localize the Aesthetics of Yields better.
Share tools and information to PLAY together nicely.

Through generations of brilliance and hard work,
we’ve earned the ability to work less.
Post-Scarcity economics focuses on eliminating jobs,
not sustaining artificially full employment.
Let’s Decentralize to Immediately and Locally Use,
Transfer, and Evolve information to DILUTE labor.

Like sufficient tastes of gourmet food, the RICH EAT SMALL.

Adults



Adults should be Responsible, Instinctual, Cooperative, and Honest,

but we’re addicted to an uncomfortable familiarity.
Functional Addicts Collectively Enable Incessant Taking.



Instead of being RICH we are PASSIVE.
Permission: blame loopholes and superiors.
Allowance: have unrealistic expectations of job availability & pay.
Social Security: pyramid schemes give recognition for our service.
Innocent: don’t get caught, if you do act ignorant.
Vacuum: your (in)actions don’t affect others.
Ennui: all else fails, use an exotic excuse.

The economy is used as a babysitter for
Individuals who can’t monitor their own demand.
We sacrifice time & ideas to pay
the Banks, Landlords, Insurance, Governments, Hospitals, & Trainers
for Credit, Occupancy, Limited Liability,
Arbitration and Protection, Subsistence, and Employability.

As long as a society chooses Artificial Scarcity,
then a government made by the people
will do everything it can
to sustain an environment
that rewards the PASSIVE & inhibits Adults.

Nothing is more expensive than giving up responsibility.

LIMITLESS

Liberating Intellectual Monopolies:

Information Technology
The Strong, Adapting, Fast, Efficient sharing of knowledge
makes Networks better.

Libraries
The collection of human creation should be
universally available for future inspiration.

Education
The tools to learn and teach should be
unrestricted to allow maximum education.

Social Services
Unfetter other Medical, Agricultural, Infrastructural, Noble industries
to provide a higher quality of life.



Intellectual Monopolies are good in the short term
but stunt growth over time because
they are burdened by Transmission And Legal Kickbacks.

The people who will excel in a LIMITLESS economy have the most
Wisdom, Entrepreneurship, Associations, Leadership, Taste, & Humanity.

ART

Start To Embrace Passions
Step 2: Learn what is ART
(Avoid what just looks NICE)

What is ART?

ART
Consumers shouldn’t judge by COST and Brand
Resourcefulness is not measured by COST,
It is measured by a company’s Indulgence.
Transparency is not measured by Brand,
It is measured by a company’s Integrity.
Consumer must become CRITIC and identify, judge, and support ART



BAIT
If we have no hard data on a brand,
Disregard obvious warnings,
Ignorantly consume,
Or selfishly don’t care,
Then Brands will mold our trust with advertising.

B= i(T)
Brands Are Imaginary Trust.

CODE
We Tax ourselves behind the scenes
Obscured costs we don’t want to see
Resolving choice with cost, we’ll hurt ourselves.
Drained of time and effort for things that don’t help.

Cost Only Disguises Exploitation

Judging by Brand and Cost will lead to
the RAT, the TAR, and the TRAP

What is the RAT?

Brands and Cost let you be taken advantage of easily.
It takes conscious effort to ensure transparency by a Community.
When we stop being Critical together the RAT will abuse us.
Accountability without transparency harbors corrupt resourcefulness.



The RAT has personality and intelligence and
their resourcefulness is unparalleled.
Low prices and crafted Brand make them look trustable.
Unwatched they destroy, spread disease, and leave land unsustainable.
For the RAT, it’s never about money, it’s about being clever.

Attacking the RAT hurts everyone else.
The RAT will charge you for their lost time.
Make all the regulations you want;
there is always a loophole for the RAT to find.
The Rat changes names or location faster than repenting.
They corrupt old techniques used to judge a good Brand.
(Notice all the green-washing?)

Holding a RAT accountable is difficult because
you don’t know or can’t prove why they are attractive.
The RAT will fight angrily against the transparency.
Compared to competing fairly, it’s more cost effective.

The RAT says, “Don’t turn on the lights, protect your privacy!”
The RAT says, “Don’t fight, you are as corrupt as me.”
The RAT says, “I’ll keep your secret for a price, freedom isn’t free.”
The RAT bites you and infects you with their RAT mentality.
No wonder why we are overrun with a RAT army.

The RAT—beautiful in their resourcefulness—is still a RAT.
It’s a pity that beauty and cleverness isn’t used to make ART.
A CRITIC chooses ART, even when they are poor.
It has a lower price, even if the Cost is more.