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.