What might human society look like without scarcity?

And when I say scarcity, I mean it in the economic sense. The limited availability of resources, of water, of computer, of transportation, of land, of

video game consoles, our economic models, all of them. Economics in general are predicated on

this concept that there simply is not enough to go around, and the question of how we might divvy

resources out in the most equitable way possible. Some models say that this family, they'll be in charge, they will decide who

gets what, and they themselves will get a lot more than everyone else. Because this family will

kind of be our mascots, but also potentially our sometimes murdery benefactors,

and they'll make sure that no one else steps up and takes too much

by enforcing laws using the military that they also control.

Now, that's roughly the logic behind traditional monarchical systems,

with kings and queens and serfs and things of that nature. And those monarchical systems

are one way of ensuring that these finite resources do not get used up, that the fields do not go

fallow, that the water doesn't get too polluted to use, and that the sheep are not all killed for a single massive

feast that then leaves everyone without wool next winter. Now, a monarchy is a type of governing

system. It allows for the governance of people and the regional finite resources. An economic system moderates the use and the exchange of

these resources. So you might have a monarchy, a king or a queen, or another royal family member

of some kind, lording over a feudal system, which was a method of organizing

society so that most people worked the land in some capacity, while the land owners provided

the fundamentals for those workers. So the warrior class, they defended the land, the peasantry, they worked the land, the clergy,

tended to all those people who worked the land and their faith needs, and the nobility

made sure that everything ran as smoothly as a feudal system could run, including exchanging

their own resources for the resources produced by

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