# 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]] > "At one point we had over a hundred people touching the game at one time, and now at any one time we have six or seven, and we’re developing faster now than we were." > **— Tom Bilyeu**, *Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026* [[reminders/Economic Transition/A Seven-Person AI Team Can Outbuild a Hundred-Person Game Team by Tom Bilyeu|A Seven-Person AI Team Can Outbuild a Hundred-Person Game Team by Tom Bilyeu]] > "Jevons paradox says [that] as intelligence gets cheaper, more people are going to use it; therefore more jobs will actually result from AI." > **— Tom Bilyeu**, *Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026* [[reminders/Economic Transition/Cheaper Intelligence Can Create More Work Through Jevons Paradox by Tom Bilyeu|Cheaper Intelligence Can Create More Work Through Jevons Paradox by Tom Bilyeu]] > "[Buying a Cybercab allows a person] to start [their] own business." > **— Tom Bilyeu**, *Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026* [[reminders/Entrepreneurship/One Autonomous Vehicle Can Become a Small Business by Tom Bilyeu|One Autonomous Vehicle Can Become a Small Business by Tom Bilyeu]] > The replacement of human-shaped jobs by robots is a massive transformation, but it will unfold over years. Anyone paying attention now still has an opportunity to reposition. > **— Adapted from Tom Bilyeu**, *Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026* [[reminders/Economic Transition/Workers Still Have Time to Reposition Before Robot Labor Scales by Tom Bilyeu|Workers Still Have Time to Reposition Before Robot Labor Scales by Tom Bilyeu]] > Use AI so effectively that you become the last person in your company whose work can be replaced. > **— Adapted from Tom Bilyeu**, *Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026* [[reminders/Economic Transition/Become the Last Person Whose Work AI Can Replace by Tom Bilyeu|Become the Last Person Whose Work AI Can Replace by Tom Bilyeu]] > "There are some examples of an abundant future, because why should we have to work? We shouldn’t have to work if we can build enough robots [that] can do all the manual [work]." > **— Emad Mostaque**, *Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026* [[reminders/Economic Transition/Robot Labor Can Make Mandatory Human Labor Unnecessary by Emad Mostaque|Robot Labor Can Make Mandatory Human Labor Unnecessary by Emad Mostaque]] > "You’re an accountant in an accountancy firm, and you want to create your own accountancy firm. Normally you set that up with some buddies, but if you do that with your buddies plus AI, you can service far more clients than ever before." > **— Emad Mostaque**, *Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026* [[reminders/Entrepreneurship/AI Lets a Small Accounting Firm Serve Far More Clients by Emad Mostaque|AI Lets a Small Accounting Firm Serve Far More Clients by Emad Mostaque]] > "Companies that use AI to upgrade, or companies that are fully AI from day one, will outperform those that aren’t, because you offer better service at a cheaper cost, [and] that allows you to accumulate capital." > **— Emad Mostaque**, *Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026* [[reminders/Entrepreneurship/AI-Native Companies Can Compound Better Service Into Capital by Emad Mostaque|AI-Native Companies Can Compound Better Service Into Capital by Emad Mostaque]] > "Do it. Competing against other companies makes you better, connects you to a network of people across the military and industry, and ultimately allows you to develop a product for a real customer." > **— Anita Sengupta**, *xTechHumanoid Winners Advance Military Exploration of Emerging Humanoid Capabilities, September 28, 2026* [[reminders/Entrepreneurship/Competition Turns Frontier Technology Into Products for Real Customers by Anita Sengupta|Competition Turns Frontier Technology Into Products for Real Customers by Anita Sengupta]] > "Overall, about 80% of job tasks by working time are exposed to either robots or LLMs. Robots do work where LLMs cannot. The remaining unexposed work is highly interpersonal or requires physical skills that robots today don't have." > **— Russell Legate-Yang and Maxim Massenkoff**, *What work can robots do?, September 30, 2026* [[reminders/Economic Transition/Robots and Language Models Together Reach Eighty Percent of Work by Russell Legate-Yang and Maxim Massenkoff|Robots and Language Models Together Reach Eighty Percent of Work by Russell Legate-Yang and Maxim Massenkoff]] > "By reducing time spent on routine activities and streamlining decision-making, we can enable colleagues to focus their expertise where it matters most, solving more complex problems, accelerating innovation, and delivering better outcomes for our customers, clients, and business." > **— Anne Marie Darling**, *Barclays scales Claude to upgrade operations and improve client experience, October 1, 2026* [[reminders/Economic Transition/AI Can Free Experts to Solve the Problems That Matter Most by Anne Marie Darling|AI Can Free Experts to Solve the Problems That Matter Most by Anne Marie Darling]]