The Abundance Economy: Universal Basic Income, Digital Currency, and Humanity's Escape from the Scarcity Mindset (en Inglés)
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What happens to human civilization when survival is no longer our primary organizing principle?For thousands of years, human societies have been structured around scarcity. We have tied identity, dignity, and survival to continuous labor, constructing economies, laws, and cultures on the premise that human toil is permanently necessary.Now, the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, and widespread digital infrastructure is breaking that ancient equation.In The Abundance Economy, author Ali Martin presents a ground-breaking vision for navigating the post-scarcity transition. Moving past surface-level policy debates, this book explores how Universal Basic Income and modern digital financial networks can serve as structural foundations for a civilization centered on human potential rather than economic anxiety.Inside this book, you will discover: The Scarcity Architecture: How agricultural history, industrial factory discipline, and economic philosophies welded human survival directly to wage labor.The Cognitive Toll of "Not-Enough" How chronic financial insecurity restricts mental bandwidth, forces short-term decision-making, and limits creative human potential.UBI as an Economic Foundation: Why Universal Basic Income is not just a welfare patch, but a vital floor that grants breathing room, stability, and room for entrepreneurial risk-taking.Digital Currency & Human Freedom: The critical operational infrastructure needed for an abundance economy-and how to ensure programmable digital money expands personal privacy and autonomy rather than institutional surveillance.Beyond the Survival Economy: How to shift societal mindsets from zero-sum competition toward collective creativity, purpose, and genuine human flourishing.Technology gives us the means to produce more with less human labor. The Abundance Economy offers the roadmap to ensure that technological progress creates a more human civilization.