go off and live innature, or live on the streets, or go into crime, leave our families, commitsuicide, and so on. The reasons we tend to carry on with what we've got,however mundane and uninspiring, do not exist solely because of money, butconsist of a complex of societal influences, as well as our own likes and fearsand history. All these things combine to make us do things we might nototherwise do. We each sustain the system that is our life by various means, andfor various reasons, only one of which might be suffering a job we don't like.My point here is that no matter what and even in a post-scarcity society there will always be things that must be done, compromises to make,opportunities that must be forgone, as inescapable parts of keeping thingsgoing in the manner of our choosing. And there will always be forces, internaland external, to make us do them. Consequently, the disappearance of money andfinancial concerns would not mean motivation disappears from human experience,nor that life would be one endless party, nor that we would no longer be ableto get things done.As an introspectiveperson who enjoys such solo pursuits as reading and writing, a post-scarcityworld appeals to me, perhaps because I can easily imagine filling my timepursuing my twin hobbies. And yet I know not all are like me in this regard,and nor should they be. It will be an enormous challenge to fill one's own timewith activities and hobbies, goals and objectives we set for ourselves becausewe want to, not because we are told to. True freedom is actually a dauntingprospect, when you think about it. A post-scarcity economy will not be heavenon earth, and should not be imagined as such. It will necessarily demand of usall full maturity, which few in scarcity-based systems reach (myself includedin my humble opinion).Post-scarcityeconomics of course requires, as mentioned above, the total and deliberateredesign of all aspects of society our cities, our energy sources, ourtransport systems, education, law, defence, etc. It is misleading trying toimagine post-scarcity looking like the present, just minus money. Indeed,today's world could not function without money. Total redesign is essential tothe idea's successful execution.Each human on theplanet would have to be raised from childhood to become a mature, free-thinkingadult, as opposed to the unthinking and obedient consumers our education tendsto produce today. A post-scarcity world demands of us generally a recognitionthat we are responsible for our actions, and that we understand how profoundlyinterdependent we are. It will be up to us all to maintain our societies, andthe ecosystem that supports us, in a sustainable way.Ethical evolution isan important part of human history that will never end, just as technologicalprogress knows no end. Currently, we face a set of coinciding circumstancesunprecedented in human history, a challenge which requires of us a readiness toconsider solutions which seem outlandish and unworkable at first. Incontemplating a world of abundance for all, we are obliged to remember thatsuch a world is not about the self-serving accumulation of possessions andstatus, but about cooperation and sustainability. Just as the cells of thehuman body co-operate in