In a post-scarcity society there will be no leisure because consumption will acquire all the oppressive characteristics of work. My wife does most of our our shopping and it definitely looks as demanding as a make-money job to me. Spending is information work in a complex society
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Bingo. Consumer choice is now so complex a mental operation that reducing choice to improve CX will be a thing 2020-2021.
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I think this might be a Parkinson's Law of shopping.
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do you define post-scarcity as post-money? like, goods just freely produced and freely distributed?
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This is why Costco is so popular, they already picked something good enough, all you have to do is buy it
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