A Comprehensive Framework for a Post-Scarcity Society
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/west-nile-virus-lie-exposed/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391442256_A_Comprehensive_Framework_for_a_Post-Scarcity_Society
Appendix: Supporting Sources and Further Reading (Print Version)
1. Wealth Cap
Zidar, Owen, and Matthew Smith. "Wealth Taxation: An Overview of the Issues." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2022.
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Wealth-Taxation-An-Overview-of-the-Issues.pdf
Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Harvard University Press, 2014.
Saez, Emmanuel, and Gabriel Zucman. "Progressive Wealth Taxation." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2019.
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Es-19-Saez-Zucman.pdf
2. Outlaw Arms Trade
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Arms Transfers Database.
https://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers
United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. "The Arms Trade Treaty."
https://www.un.org/disarmament/convarms/att/
Stohl, Rachel, and Suzette Grillot. The International Arms Trade. Polity Press, 2009.
3. Flat Sales Tax, AI/Robot Tax, and Negative Income Tax
Delaney, Kevin J. "The robot that takes your job should pay taxes, says Bill Gates." Quartz, 2017.
https://qz.com/911968/bill-gates-the-robot-that-takes-your-job-should-pay-taxes
Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. University of Chicago Press, 1962.
Mankiw, N. Gregory. "A Proposal for a Carbon Tax with Rebates." Harvard Kennedy School, 2013.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mankiw/files/a_proposal_for_a_carbon_tax_with_rebates.pdf
4. Political Reform
Altman, David. "Term Limits and Their Consequences." Journal of Democracy, 2007.
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/term-limits-and-their-consequences/
Transparency International. "Asset Declarations."
https://www.transparency.org/en/projects/asset-declarations
OECD. "Asset Declarations for Public Officials: A Tool to Prevent Corruption."
https://www.oecd.org/corruption/anti-bribery/Asset-Declarations.pdf
5. Clean Resources: Air, Water, Food
United Nations. "The Human Right to Water and Sanitation."
https://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/human_right_to_water.shtml
World Health Organization. "Air Pollution."
https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). "The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023."
https://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/2023/en/
6. Edible Cities and Resilient Food Systems
Viljoen, Andre, and Katrin Bohn. Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing Productive Cities. Routledge, 2014.
FAO. "Urban Agriculture: FAO's Role in Urban Food Systems."
https://www.fao.org/urban-agriculture/en/
Altieri, Miguel A., et al. "The greening of the ‘barrios’: Urban agriculture for food security in Cuba." Agriculture and Human Values, 1999.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1007535300965
7. Right to Stay Analog
Schneier, Bruce. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World. W.W. Norton, 2015.
European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). "Resilience of Communication Networks."
https://www.enisa.europa.eu/topics/csirt-cert-services/resilience-of-communication-networks
8. Simple Laws Inspired by Wendell Holmes
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr. The Common Law. Little, Brown, and Company, 1881.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2449
Sunstein, Cass R. "Simplicity in Law." Harvard Law Review, 2018.
https://harvardlawreview.org/2018/04/simplicity-in-law/
9. Global Debt Jubilee
Hudson, Michael. ...and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year. ISLET, 2018.
IMF. "Debt Relief Under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative."
https://www.imf.org/en/About/Factsheets/Sheets/2016/08/01/16/11/Debt-Relief-Under-the-Heavily-Indebted-Poor-Countries-Initiative
10. Sustainable and Equitable Currency System
Economist. "Could an energy-backed currency replace the dollar?" The Economist, 2022.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/06/23/could-an-energy-backed-currency-replace-the-dollar
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). "Thorium Fuel Cycle."
https://www.iaea.org/topics/thorium-fuel-cycle
ITER. "Fusion Energy: The ITER Project."
https://www.iter.org/
Lietaer, Bernard. The Future of Money: Beyond Greed and Scarcity. Random House, 2001.
11. Religion as Private Belief
United Nations. "Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 18."
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
Pew Research Center. "Global Restrictions on Religion."
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/09/30/global-restrictions-on-religion-increased-in-2019/
12. Infrastructure as Societal Wealth Metric
Stiglitz, Joseph E., Amartya Sen, and Jean-Paul Fitoussi. "Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress."
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/118025/118123/Fitoussi+Commission+report
UN-Habitat. "Infrastructure for Economic Development and Poverty Reduction."
https://unhabitat.org/infrastructure-for-economic-development-and-poverty-reduction
Scarre, Chris. The Inca: Lost Civilizations. Reaktion Books, 2018.
Further Reading
Schwab, Klaus. The Fourth Industrial Revolution. World Economic Forum, 2016.
Rifkin, Jeremy. The Zero Marginal Cost Society. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Raworth, Kate. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/west-nile-virus-lie-exposed/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391442256_A_Comprehensive_Framework_for_a_Post-Scarcity_Society
Appendix: Supporting Sources and Further Reading (Print Version)
1. Wealth Cap
Zidar, Owen, and Matthew Smith. "Wealth Taxation: An Overview of the Issues." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2022.
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Wealth-Taxation-An-Overview-of-the-Issues.pdf
Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Harvard University Press, 2014.
Saez, Emmanuel, and Gabriel Zucman. "Progressive Wealth Taxation." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2019.
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Es-19-Saez-Zucman.pdf
2. Outlaw Arms Trade
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Arms Transfers Database.
https://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers
United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. "The Arms Trade Treaty."
https://www.un.org/disarmament/convarms/att/
Stohl, Rachel, and Suzette Grillot. The International Arms Trade. Polity Press, 2009.
3. Flat Sales Tax, AI/Robot Tax, and Negative Income Tax
Delaney, Kevin J. "The robot that takes your job should pay taxes, says Bill Gates." Quartz, 2017.
https://qz.com/911968/bill-gates-the-robot-that-takes-your-job-should-pay-taxes
Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. University of Chicago Press, 1962.
Mankiw, N. Gregory. "A Proposal for a Carbon Tax with Rebates." Harvard Kennedy School, 2013.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mankiw/files/a_proposal_for_a_carbon_tax_with_rebates.pdf
4. Political Reform
Altman, David. "Term Limits and Their Consequences." Journal of Democracy, 2007.
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/term-limits-and-their-consequences/
Transparency International. "Asset Declarations."
https://www.transparency.org/en/projects/asset-declarations
OECD. "Asset Declarations for Public Officials: A Tool to Prevent Corruption."
https://www.oecd.org/corruption/anti-bribery/Asset-Declarations.pdf
5. Clean Resources: Air, Water, Food
United Nations. "The Human Right to Water and Sanitation."
https://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/human_right_to_water.shtml
World Health Organization. "Air Pollution."
https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). "The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023."
https://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/2023/en/
6. Edible Cities and Resilient Food Systems
Viljoen, Andre, and Katrin Bohn. Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing Productive Cities. Routledge, 2014.
FAO. "Urban Agriculture: FAO's Role in Urban Food Systems."
https://www.fao.org/urban-agriculture/en/
Altieri, Miguel A., et al. "The greening of the ‘barrios’: Urban agriculture for food security in Cuba." Agriculture and Human Values, 1999.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1007535300965
7. Right to Stay Analog
Schneier, Bruce. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World. W.W. Norton, 2015.
European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). "Resilience of Communication Networks."
https://www.enisa.europa.eu/topics/csirt-cert-services/resilience-of-communication-networks
8. Simple Laws Inspired by Wendell Holmes
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr. The Common Law. Little, Brown, and Company, 1881.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2449
Sunstein, Cass R. "Simplicity in Law." Harvard Law Review, 2018.
https://harvardlawreview.org/2018/04/simplicity-in-law/
9. Global Debt Jubilee
Hudson, Michael. ...and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year. ISLET, 2018.
IMF. "Debt Relief Under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative."
https://www.imf.org/en/About/Factsheets/Sheets/2016/08/01/16/11/Debt-Relief-Under-the-Heavily-Indebted-Poor-Countries-Initiative
10. Sustainable and Equitable Currency System
Economist. "Could an energy-backed currency replace the dollar?" The Economist, 2022.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/06/23/could-an-energy-backed-currency-replace-the-dollar
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). "Thorium Fuel Cycle."
https://www.iaea.org/topics/thorium-fuel-cycle
ITER. "Fusion Energy: The ITER Project."
https://www.iter.org/
Lietaer, Bernard. The Future of Money: Beyond Greed and Scarcity. Random House, 2001.
11. Religion as Private Belief
United Nations. "Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 18."
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
Pew Research Center. "Global Restrictions on Religion."
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/09/30/global-restrictions-on-religion-increased-in-2019/
12. Infrastructure as Societal Wealth Metric
Stiglitz, Joseph E., Amartya Sen, and Jean-Paul Fitoussi. "Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress."
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/118025/118123/Fitoussi+Commission+report
UN-Habitat. "Infrastructure for Economic Development and Poverty Reduction."
https://unhabitat.org/infrastructure-for-economic-development-and-poverty-reduction
Scarre, Chris. The Inca: Lost Civilizations. Reaktion Books, 2018.
Further Reading
Schwab, Klaus. The Fourth Industrial Revolution. World Economic Forum, 2016.
Rifkin, Jeremy. The Zero Marginal Cost Society. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Raworth, Kate. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017.