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Survival Problem

Survival Problem The Survival Problem is humanity's historic struggle to secure food, water, shelter, and health. The book argues that technology--fusion, robotics, AI logistics--finally enables...

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Survival Problem

The Survival Problem is humanity’s historic struggle to secure food, water, shelter, and health. The book argues that technology–fusion, robotics, AI logistics–finally enables solving it universally. The Foundation is designed to eliminate survival anxiety, freeing attention for higher-order pursuits.

Recognizing survival as a solved engineering problem, not a moral one, reframes policy: essentials become infrastructure rather than commodities. This shift parallels past public goods expansions (sanitation, electricity) that transformed living standards but extends them to all basics.

Addressing survival universally is the prerequisite for tackling the Stagnation Problem ethically; otherwise, scarcity coercion persists and Merit becomes just another currency.

References

  • UnscarcityBook, chapter1 and chapter3
  • Amartya Sen, “Development as Freedom” (1999)
  • UNDP Human Development Reports (2023)
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