The problem is, scarcity is as fundamental an axiom of the discipline of Economics as the ZFC axioms of mathematics.
Take away that axiom and the discipline of Economics itself disappears along with it.
I have recently been looking into Abel–Ruffini theorem and while I was doing so, I was reminded of your message and I started to wonder if there could ever be an entity called “Economics of Plenty”. Please allow me to elaborate.
Today, as you know, Noway is one of most affluent nations. I am sure you know quite well as you have cousins in that neck of the wood.But they were quite poor in the 19th century.In fact, they turned rich,primarily, after the oil boom which began in the 1960s.
(I wonder if you could migrate to that region with a little help from your cousins ,maybe,your ideas and work might get better appreciation there and also you might be able to access more resources which you could then channel towards your mathematical/philosophical work).
Abel was a Norwegian mathematician. But he was not from an affluent family. In those days, in Norway, there was almost no programs pertaining to higher mathematics so he was forced to travel to Germany in order to learn. He often had to survive of on just one meal a day because he was short of funds.
He really wanted to meet Gauss but some jealous people told him that Gauss looked down upon his work so he decided not to meet him( Gauss was unaware of all this intrigue).
While he was a gifted mathematician ,he did not possess the philosophical insights of our good friend Herr Schopenhauer and so he traveled in a sledge ,in a raging snow storm, to meet his fiancee.
He contracted tuberculosis( now where have I heard about that disease before?).
He died within a few days. Two days after his demise the postman brought a letter from his friend wherein it was was mentioned that he had been appointed as a professor of mathematics in the University of Berlin.
He was to mathematics,what van Gogh was to art.
Anyway, that way long digression, what I wanted to say that this-there is no guarantee that the regions which are now affluent won’t revert back to being poverty-stricken.
Let’s just say people in Africa and in my own “Fatherland”, are allergic to buying “rubber”.
In a lot of ways, “my Fatherland” resembles Norway of the 19th century.
I,for one, believe that the population bomb has not been defused.In fact, I am writing this to you,while I sit atop the bomb.
In the the end,it would be Malthus,not Jesus or Joseph Smith ,who would turn out to the true Prophet.
I recently came across this:
While traveling through Africa, he depicts “a nightmare world of poisoned and ruined landscapes; impoverished, starving villages” — and eventually decides to abort his journey because traveling further meant “traveling into madness.” Most poignantly, as he observes a typically decrepit African slum with an Angolan, the man observes, “This is what the world will look like when it ends.”