Fill Your Boots: my column on how technology could let us work like artisans and live like kings

My latest Locus column is “Fill Your Boots,” in which I talk about how scientists, sf writers, economists and environmental activists have wrestled with the question of abundance — how the “green left” transformed left wing politics from the promise of every peasant living like a lord to the promise of every lord living like a peasant.

One thing everyone can agree on is that market competition and technology has made material abundance a lot less material: the labor, energy, and resources...