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Of Mind and Money: Post-Scarcity Economics and Human Nature
Posted on July 18, 2015
By Stuart Mason Dambrot, Synthesist | Futurist, Critical Thought
Man acquires at birth, through heredity, a biological constitution which we must consider
fixed and unalterable, including the natural urges which are characteristic of the human
species.
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source
of the evil.
– Why Socialism? Albert Einstein, Monthly Review, 1949 1
These two quotes from the same article written by Albert Einstein demonstrate that
intelligence and imagination do not necessarily guard against nonconscious cognitive bias and
unexamined beliefs. The question is whether either, both or neither are correct. This
chapter, Of Mind and Money, provides a perspectival answer showing not only that, given
advances in science and technology, the first quote is not necessarily factual, but also that as
such it would support the design and implementation of a post-scarcity economic environment
by modifying our fundamental, evolution-derived beliefs about scarcity, capitalism, class
hierarchies, labor, and competition.
The Nature of Human Nature Redux
In the myriad discussions focused on future scenarios envisioned and articulated in science,
technology, humanities, business, politics, or military, and other fields, there is one