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<blockquote data-quote="Krensky" data-source="post: 5595895" data-attributes="member: 30936"><p>But commerce is not the same in a post-scarcity economy. Both market and planned economic theories are based on the premise of material scarcity. By definition a economic system based on the sort of automated manufacturing we're discussing has, for practical purposes, no material scarcity.</p><p></p><p></p><p>They do not eliminate needs. They, typically, eliminate scarcity. They don't necessarily even do that. Go read the Diamond Age.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That massively depends on the nature of human society at the time and the specifics of the transporter. As I said, Niven's essay on teleportation in All the Myriad Ways discusses this and is almost required reading in this field of futurism.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Nah, Esperanto will win. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Seriously though, modern English may be the base but you'll wind up with a patois, fusion thing in a few generations without concerted effort. The people speaking it may still call it English, especially since English has always been a patois to some degree.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Krensky, post: 5595895, member: 30936"] But commerce is not the same in a post-scarcity economy. Both market and planned economic theories are based on the premise of material scarcity. By definition a economic system based on the sort of automated manufacturing we're discussing has, for practical purposes, no material scarcity. They do not eliminate needs. They, typically, eliminate scarcity. They don't necessarily even do that. Go read the Diamond Age. That massively depends on the nature of human society at the time and the specifics of the transporter. As I said, Niven's essay on teleportation in All the Myriad Ways discusses this and is almost required reading in this field of futurism. Nah, Esperanto will win. ;) Seriously though, modern English may be the base but you'll wind up with a patois, fusion thing in a few generations without concerted effort. The people speaking it may still call it English, especially since English has always been a patois to some degree. [/QUOTE]
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