Epilogue: A Letter from the Future
Read the full epilogue in the Unscarcity book.
The Epilogue closes with Maria Delgado at 85, writing to her great-granddaughter Luna. It’s not a blueprint—it’s the emotional payoff: what does it feel like to get there? The answer isn’t comfortable. The scars remain, but so does the hope.
Questions Addressed
- What does it feel like to live through the transition?
- How do we explain artificial scarcity to those who’ve never known it?
- What went wrong along the way, and what did we learn?
- What does it mean to build without waiting for heroes?
- Why is imagination the resource that was never scarce?
Related Topics
- Diversity Guard — Preventing tyranny through distributed consensus
- Civic Service — Building builders, not dependents
- Enterprise EXIT Protocol — How billionaires traded wealth for legacy
- Impact — The currency that replaced money
- Spark Threshold — Consciousness recognition
- Civic Mesh Architecture — Federated governance
Four Lessons from Maria
- Transparency Is Trust — If you can’t see how the decision is made, assume it’s being made against you
- Power Must Decay — Every time, without exception
- Consciousness Is Everything — Whether housed in meat or silicon
- Human Hands-On Competence Is the Backup Plan — When systems fail, people who know the old way save civilization
Characters Featured
- Maria Delgado — 85, writing from 2075
- Adewale Okonkwo — Wrote the first Impact Ledger
- Luna — Maria’s great-granddaughter, studying orbital mechanics
- Richard — Died at 102 after taking EXIT early
