I was thinking of the possibility of pricing and scarcity as being ways of creating natural selection. So I was thinking of developing a theory of the idea of a "biological economy". One ramification of this is that even if scarcity was eventually solved, humans would find an artificial way to create scarcity to keep up the evolutionary pressures. Not as some mastermind plan created from the top, but as a subconscious evolutionary process. So for example, food prices will never drop beyond a certain threshold in order to make sure unfit people can keep dying from starvation. Or housing will always remain expensive, even if houses become trivially easy to build and the population goes down significantly.
>>83508103eh, kind of contradictory because Nerdy Ned can make 500k as an engineer and buy whatever he wants while Chad Stice can barely afford food. but it's a good idea in its own way
