1. Post‑Scarcity Removes the Rationale for Governance

- Historical governance justified by managing scarcity (Hobbes; Scott, Against the Grain).

- Technological abundance dissolves these constraints (Fuller; Rifkin; Drexler; Sen).

- Institutions built for rationing become pathological when scarcity ends (Polanyi; Graeber).

2. The Global Maxima of Allowable Freedom

- Freedom bounded only by physics, coordination, and harm (Mill’s harm principle).

- Post‑scarcity enables the highest feasible autonomy (Sen & Nussbaum’s capability theory).

- Goal: maximize human self‑authorship, not institutional control.

3. The Global Minima of Rulemaking

- Minimal rules required for safety and coordination (Ostrom’s decentralized governance).

- Bureaucratic expansion is a product of scarcity, ...