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[tisiphone]

Help me out, Internets. A few years ago I read a short story, I don't remember who it was by but I don't read a lot of short stories so it was probably Connie Willis or Charles Stross. It was about two next-door neighbors who lived in a world where nanotechnology advanced so much that people just made stuff in their garages. One particular point was one guy making oranges, and then recycling the peels into socks or something. Do you remember this story? I need it! (It's a perfect illustration of the problems of an abundance economy.)

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[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Obviously not what you're looking for, but an interesting discussion of the economics of Star Trek as a proto-post-scarcity economy:

The Economics of Star Trek (https://medium.com/@RickWebb/the-economics-of-star-trek-29bab88d50) | Medium -- [The Proto-Post Scarcity Economy]

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

Ah, excellent. I'd already considered using Star Trek, but it's not really a post-scarcity economy (I'd classify it as a partial abundance economy, where a benevolent, cosmopolitan overclass shows characteristics of post-scarcity, but the planets they land on definitely do not.) I'm starting to think I should have titled this talk "the political economy of science fiction" :)