What would you do in a post-scarcity world?

[Japher]

I'd make cheese... maybe even beer as well. I like making stuff I enjoy.

[Japher]

Do you think that in lack of need people will elevate want? If I have everything I need would I just want more of whatever it is I would want? If that's the case than how can a human's thirst for happiness ever be sated? Contentment breeds dissatisfaction with the thing we have and thus sparks desire and motive. It's like the quest for perfection, and the need of a master artist to include an intentional flaw. I would life to see hunger and thirst disappear, and religions to unify, and peace to thrive, but then what would we wage war over?

If we all agreed, we would have nothing to talk about.

[notyoueither]

Japher, you've just solved the internet.

See you all later.

[Egbert]

That doesn't make any sense. The google tells me that it's basically 1:1 for Australian and American dollars. Bananas cost a dollar a pound here in the US.

Either your Australian bananas weigh a pound or they are a lot more expensive in Australia than in the US

If you go to the shop just down the road from where I am you see that it is indeed offering to sell one banana for A$1.20 including the banana skin. My assertion you can buy a banana is for A1.20 is true. The banana weighs less than a pound, actually the weight of each banana is not specified. You get a banana of unspecified weight so I presume the largest bananas are sold first.

Bananas are much cheaper at the fruit shop. I hope this clears up the subject of relative banana prices in a trans-Pacific context.

[Al B. Sure!]

So that shop down the road is scandalously charging exorbitant prices for bananas?

[Egbert]

They are indeed charging scandalously exorbitant prices for bananas.

OTH It is a convenience store. Convenience stores charge scandalously exorbitant prices for everything, including bananas. When one is in a convenience store it becomes quite clear that one is not living in a post-scarcity world.

[Aeson]

You can get all the bananas you want here, for "free" if you're willing to go harvest them up in the mountains. In market they'll cost you ~P15/kg. If you write me an article about your experience and how healthy it was, you can afford a kg and still have a bit of change left over!

[Egbert]

Nah. You offered notyoueither P25 for an article but you're only offering me P15. I feel devalued now.

[Aeson]

I said you'd have a bit of change left over! I value your contribution to my bank account very highly. You are as important to the health of this organization as a banana is to the health of the urinary tract!

[Egbert]

I think we need a thread discussing the health benefits of bananas. That is a very important topic.

[Cort Haus]

Aeson, I would happily chip in to get you a copy of Civ 5 if it meant you'd write about it. If you did that, I might even buy a copy myself and play it.

[Aeson]

I appreciate the sentiment. I could buy it if I wanted (with my Paypal money that's being held hostage by Paypal and Ebay). Could even ship over my gaming computer to play it. But no time to get into a civ-like (as far as time required) game, and sounds like it isn't that civ-like in that manner anyways