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property rights, enforceable contracts, and free market economies oriented society toward nonviolent means of resource allocation

the central assumption of these technologies is that scarcity is fundamental 

if ai successfully invalidates that assumption, how will society be reorganized?

Counter-argument: Even if AI drastically reduces scarcity in some domains (e.g. knowledge, labor, or certain goods), it won’t eliminate scarcity in all areas particularly in physical resources (land, rare materials), attention, and status. These forms of scarcity are deeply rooted in human psychology and physical constraints, and thus will continue to drive competition and necessitate systems of allocation, coordination, and enforcement.

Property rights and contracts may evolve rather than disappear shifting from ownership of physical goods to control over compute, data, influence, or access. Instead of being invalidated, the old frameworks may be reinterpreted for new forms of capital and constraint. 

In this view, AI changes the playing field, not the game.