What Will Abundance Feel Like? (You Won't Feel It.)
Ideas to take with you.
- 01
Abundance is experienced as the absence of a tax that used to be paid – cognitive, monetary, or temporal – not as felt euphoria, which is why the destination always looks impossible from inside the present.
- 02
Scarcity does not disappear when material goods get cheap; it migrates to whatever remains genuinely constrained – time, attention, trust, standing, meaning.
- 03
The mechanical story of how prices fall and the psychological story of how humans experience that fall are two separate things and should be held separately.
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Power in an honest-money world tends toward the relational and reputational rather than the coercive, because the coercive kind depends on proximity to a money printer that no longer exists.
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Categories like 'lazy' or 'high-performing' are partly artifacts of the current monetary and credentialing system; a different substrate would surface different capacities and different definitions of contribution.
