It could be argued that those in the west have been partially living in an abundant world the last 20 years. Albeit with some very large distortions. Food & clothing has been abundant for some time and that has led to some strange cultural issues like obesity and fast-fashion.

Housing & energy hasn’t been abundant, but feels like is in dire need of bitcoin to demonetise and monetise respectively. Bitcoin is also creating a healthy counter-culture.

Abundance sounds like something we should strive for. It sounds great. Yet we also need values, morals, critical thinking and productive people for abundance to generate a healthy society. If there’s one learning from this century, that would be it for me. The return of morality. Otherwise we run the risk in an era of increasing abundance, of creating more scarcity of meaning in our lives.

For me it has nothing to do with what we have. I live very simply and I don't have much and yet, I feel infinitely abundant. Meaning, I always know I will have everything I need and so I do. In my past life, I made a lot of money and enjoyed consuming. And I was in a scarcity mindset. Now I am abundant through having less.

Answering with my tinfoil cowboy hat, I'd say we've been lied to about how energy truly works for the last 100ish years. We live in a world of extremely inefficient abundance that doesn't have to be this way.

I believe there's growing evidence that 'free energy' or 'vacuum energy' is possible and has been suppressed.

If people's reaction to that is, "That's not possible with our understanding of science" to me, that sounds like no-coiners saying "Bitcoin can possibly work because of our understanding of the financial system."

Bitcoiners see the conspiracy in our money. Now adjust your gaze and see the conspiracy in our energy.

You learn to accept things that appear in your life and assume you deserve them.

Abundance is relative and exists on a spectrum. Having more of some resource than you need for the day implies abundance for the day, but if you don't have enough for tomorrow as well then it's relatively little abundance.

If we take abundance in this context to mean enough resources for the average person for the foreseeable future then we have wealth as a species that we've never had before. I believe we have something akin to Parkinson's Law governing human behavior: the demand for resources grows until it consumes the available supply. Gluttony and greed have been with humanity for as long as we've been around and will continue. Not placing any moral judgments on that by the way. That's just an observation.

I believe in most ways we live in this world today. At least in the US. That's not to say that there isn't also scarcity. But compared to most of human history we have amazing abundance. It is my belief that if the state would shirk or disappear we'd have even more abundance.

The money would have to be scarce first and more people would need to have unconscable property right, then abundance will flow to the world in terms of more people willing to give their best to produce what the world want. Bitcoin would make it possible

Abundance in a finite world means there are enough resources for all animals and life, including humans. Since the world size is finite and we cannot change it and the energy is more or less constant from the Sun, abundance implies there has to be a limited number of humans and life on the planet. What is the limit? That's the question.

In my ideal world, there would be an abundance of food, security, and health.

Bitcoin encourages abundance mindset. Fiat encourages scarcity mindset. A bitcoiner can plan for the future instead of being stuck in panic about how the future will look. What a gift.

Define abundance? It depends on what a person finds abundant. I am abundant in many things, but live very simply. My entire month of spending is less than $1,300. I would rather not have to live like that, and work for that not to be the case, but I am abundant in the ability and know how to do that.

I feel this is the consequence of lifestyle creep. Once you get into a better situation, you life more abundantly. It takes a lot of discipline not to.

Hm, with war being on the rise again, I think that sitting on the couch watching Netflix and purging a bag of Lays is as abundant as it can get.

Funny, I was just thinking about that before I saw your post.

The universe greets.

ABUNDANCE in the global north = DEPLETION in the global south

Don’t forget that there is looting happening everywhere by capitalists 🤨