The Full Harmonious Development of Human Potential in its Richest Diversity

1. Post‑Scarcity Removes the Rationale for Governance- Historical governance justified by managing scarcity (Hobbes; Scott, Against the Grain). - Technological abundance dissolves these constraints (Fuller; Rifkin; Drexler; Sen). - Institutions built for rationing become pathological when scarcity ends (Polanyi; Graeber).2. The Global Maxima of Allowable Freedom- Freedom bounded only by physics, coordination, and harm (Mill’s harm principle). - Post‑scarcity enables the highest feasible autonomy (Sen & Nussbaum’s capability theory). - Goal: maximize human self‑authorship, not institutional control.3. The Global Minima of Rulemaking- Minimal rules required for safety and coordination (Ostrom’s decentralized governance). - Bureaucratic expansion is a product of scarcity, not necessity (Weber; Graeber). - In abundance, most rulemaking becomes coercive overhead.4. Education as Autonomy Engineering- Traditional schooling reproduces hierarchy (Bourdieu; Collins; Illich). - Post‑scarcity requires epistemic sovereignty and self‑direction (Freire; Papert). - Education shifts from compliance training to capability development.5. The End of Institutional Scarcity- Institutions ration resources, knowledge, legitimacy (Foucault; Coase). - AI, automation, and open systems eliminate these bottlenecks (Bostrom; Benkler). - Institutions become the primary generators of artificial scarcity.6. Hard‑Science Futurism Reinterpreted- Orion’s Arm–style civilizations assume governance by superintelligences. - Alternative view: advanced intelligence dissolves coercion, not optimizes it (Good; Tegmark). - Complexity management becomes non‑coercive infrastructure.7. The Long Arc Toward Self‑Authorship- Civilization evolves from survival → scarcity management → autonomy (Maslow; Fuller). - Post‑scarcity’s purpose is the full development of human potential in its richest diversity. - The endpoint is not better institutions — it is fewer institutions.