# Abundance Economics **Entity class:** Economic system concept **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / science / political economy **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Abundance Economics** studies what happens when intelligence, energy, manufactured goods, scientific discovery, or services become radically cheaper and more available. ## Mechanism and Consequence Its central problem is distribution: expanding productive capacity can raise the material floor while ownership, scarcity, status, and political access continue to determine who captures the gains. ## Relationships - [[wiki/AI Abundance|AI Abundance]] - [[wiki/AI Economy|AI Economy]] - [[wiki/Universal Basic Income|Universal Basic Income]] - [[wiki/Post-Employment Economy|Post-Employment Economy]] ## Source Dossiers - [[research/AI Is Now So Good They Will Pay You to Quit|AI Is Now So Good They Will Pay You to Quit]] - [[research/Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon|Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon]] - [[research/Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live|Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > The abundance thesis is visible in AI price-performance: the models are becoming twice as capable and twice as cheap at an accelerating rate. > **— Adapted from Peter Diamandis**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/Abundance/AI Is Becoming Twice as Capable and Twice as Cheap by Peter Diamandis|AI Is Becoming Twice as Capable and Twice as Cheap by Peter Diamandis]] > "We build artificial intelligence to benefit everyone. We think that under President Trump's leadership, everyone is coming together to agree on how to move forward safely." > **— Jensen Huang**, *White House Super Intelligence gathering, September 2026* [[reminders/Abundance/Build Artificial Intelligence to Benefit Everyone by Jensen Huang|Build Artificial Intelligence to Benefit Everyone by Jensen Huang]] > "‘Superintelligence’ is a remarkably good way to think about [advanced AI] because many fears concern artificial superintelligence, which should be differentiated from the intelligence helping us day to day. Most of the AIs helping us every day will be the perspiration AIs—the execution AIs. We still need innovation in materials, physics, and other fields, but that is a different set of things. Let us make sure the ninety-nine percent of execution reaches the ninety-nine percent of people and uplifts everyone." > **— Emad Mostaque**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/Abundance/Execution AI Must Reach Ninety-Nine Percent of People by Emad Mostaque|Execution AI Must Reach Ninety-Nine Percent of People by Emad Mostaque]] > "The first article we could find predicting that robots or AI would take all the jobs within five years appeared in 1964. We become trapped in these tropes and cannot get out of them. People made similar claims when audio recording and the printed book emerged, even saying books would destroy people’s brains. We are actually reaching abundance; the data shows it, but our narratives sadly lag far behind." > **— Salim Ismail**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/AI Economy/Narratives About Job Loss Lag Behind Abundance by Salim Ismail|Narratives About Job Loss Lag Behind Abundance by Salim Ismail]] > "For 250 years, the American character has sought a virtuous balance between innovation and safety, independence and security. Superintelligence is the latest in that long series of challenges and opportunities. In the service of humankind, it can become the greatest engine of growth and prosperity in history." > **— Michael Kratsios**, *United States intervention at the United Nations Security Council, September 2026* [[reminders/Abundance/Superintelligence Can Become the Greatest Engine of Prosperity in History by Michael Kratsios|Superintelligence Can Become the Greatest Engine of Prosperity in History by Michael Kratsios]] > "Our mission is to keep you hopeful, optimistic, and inspired to find your massive transformative purpose, choose your moonshot, and make it happen. This is life during the singularity; it is never going to be any slower. Each of us has the opportunity to make the future what we desire. The future is not happening to us; it is what we create. Given these superhero technologies, we have the ability to build, create, and steer that future. AI is not a hand grenade; it is a jetpack." > **— Peter Diamandis**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/Abundance/The Future Is What We Create by Peter Diamandis|The Future Is What We Create by Peter Diamandis]]