Scarcity is at the cornerstone of our economic system. Supply and demand. All that great stuff we learned in economics class.
Yet, information is the “product” of the 21st century. And the free distribution of information is the heartbeat of the internet. In fact, reducing scarcity is at the core of technology in general. Consider how much information has become available to everyone over the past two decades. Free.
What does this do to our economic system, in the long run?