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Transitioning to a post scarcity society requires broad, accessible dissemination of post scarcity production methods.

What was the first thing we did when we digitized media and therefore made it copyable at negligible per unit cost?

Spent a huge amount of time and money to artificially reimplement scarcity via DRM.

Scarcity-based capital interests (read: most) are not going to willingly give up their profit engines.