Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To   : POINDEXTER FORTRAN
From : Cougar428
Date : Wed May 21 2025 06:24 am

-=> Quoting Poindexter Fortran to Cougar428 <=-

-=> Cougar428 wrote to ARELOR <=-

Co>  Apologies, I'm not well educated on 'post scarcity economy'. Sadly
Co> this
Co>  is the first time I've heard the term. So you kind of lost me here. I
Co>  think I may have been watching Star Trek when this was discussed and
Co>  missed the idea altogether.

PF> Another book recommendation is "The Midas Plague" by Frederik Pohl -
PF> about a society where cold fusion makes energy cheap, and when energy
PF> is cheap, the costs of production plummet and there's an
PF> overabundance of abundance. The book discusses how society changes in
PF> several stories in ways you wouldn't think.

Thanks for the suggestion! I found the story in a Galaxy Science
Fiction pulp magazine from April of 1954. It's apparently a novella so
I'm going to give it a read.

Have a wonderful day!

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