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post-scarcity environment, the definition of post-scarcity economics then becomes the post-
capital, technology-enabled, demand-responsive transformation of resources into goods,
services and information that are provided to individuals or groups who acquire them.
That being said, post-scarcity embodiments have been conceptualized for many years. The
efforts most salient to the thesis herein include Technocracy Movement 19 , which proposed
replacing politicians and businesspeople with scientists and engineers who had the technical
expertise to manage the economy; Venus Project 20 , which calls for a culture redesign to make
war, poverty, hunger, debt and unnecessary human suffering unacceptable and explores the
determinants of behavior to dispel the myth of human nature, asserting that environment
shapes behavior; Zeitgeist Movement, 21 reminiscent of the Technocracy Movement and
previously aligned with the Venus Project, is focused on technology, post-scarcity, post-
capital, post-labor and direct (nonrepresentational) governance; and Transpolitica 22 , a
grassroots Transhumanist political organization focused on enabling society to transcend the
limitations and constraints of today’s political models.