What will we do with abundance when it arrives? Not the abundance of money or things, but the abundance of time, energy, and choice that's about to be handed back to humanity. Machines will do more of the doing. What will we do with the space that opens up? Some will fill it with fear — hoarding, competing, bracing for scarcity that no longer needs to exist. Others will fill it with purpose — creating, connecting, giving. The Golden Age isn't a date on a calendar. It's a compass heading, and each of us gets to choose which way we point.
Read MoreSome American Indigenous cultures have "potlatch" ceremonies. These are elaborate gift-giving rituals, where hosts gain prestige by generously and freely bestowing their riches on others. Circulating wealth, instead of hoarding it, is honored and celebrated. Potlatch operates on a different logic: the purpose of having stuff is to make having stuff possible for others.
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