Molecular Assemblers: Build anything atom-by-atom
+ Fusion Power: Infinite energy (free, abundant)
+ ASI Coordination: Optimal distribution globally
+ Space Mining: Asteroid resources (unlimited raw materials)
= Post-Scarcity Economy Achieved

Result:
- Any physical good: Free, instant, unlimited
- Any service: Automated (ASI + robots, free)
- Any experience: VR/real, customized, free
- Any knowledge: Instant access, free
- Any problem: ASI solves it, free

Cost of everything: $0
Work required: 0 hours
Scarcity: Eliminated

Molecular Assembler Network:
├─ Deployed: 8.4 billion personal fabricators (1 per person)
├─ Size: Microwave-sized (kitchen appliance)
├─ Capability: Assemble any object atom-by-atom
├─ Speed: 1 kg/hour (most items < 5 minutes)
├─ Feedstock: Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, trace elements
├─ Source: Air + water + trace mineral cartridges
├─ Energy: Fusion power (free, unlimited)
├─ Design database: 10^12 items (anything ever made + infinite custom)
└─ Cost: $0 (ASI-built, distributed free globally)

What you can make:
- Food: Steak, caviar, any meal (molecularly perfect)
- Clothing: Designer fashion, custom-fit
- Electronics: Laptops, phones, anything
- Medicine: Any drug, perfectly synthesized
- Luxury goods: Jewelry, art, vehicles
- Housing materials: Build mansion in days
- Literally anything made of atoms (except nuclear weapons, restricted)

Process:
1. Request item via interface: "Make me lobster thermidor"
2. Fabricator assembles from atoms: 4 minutes
3. Perfect meal appears
4. Cost: $0, Effort: 0

Fusion Power Grid:
├─ Plants: 47,000 globally (1 GW each)
├─ Total capacity: 47 TW (3× global consumption)
├─ Fuel: Deuterium from seawater (effectively unlimited)
├─ Waste: Helium (inert, harmless)
├─ Cost per kWh: $0 (too cheap to meter)
├─ Distribution: Wireless (beamed power, Tesla dream realized)
└─ Personal allocation: Unlimited (use as much as you want)

Result: Energy constraints eliminated
- Climate control: Free
- Transportation: Free
- Manufacturing: Free
- Computation: Free
- Anything requiring energy: Free

Robot Workforce:
├─ Population: 47 billion robots (6 per human)
├─ Capabilities: All manual labor + many cognitive tasks
├─ Cost: $0 (self-replicating, ASI-designed)
├─ Employment: 100% of work humans don't want to do
└─ Human employment: Optional (0% if you choose)

ASI Services:
├─ Healthcare: Automated (immortality nanobots)
├─ Education: Personalized tutors (master anything)
├─ Entertainment: Infinite content generation
├─ Governance: Resource allocation (optimal, fair)
├─ Problem-solving: Any question answered instantly
└─ All cognitive services: Free, unlimited, superhuman quality

Result: Service scarcity eliminated

Virtual Reality + Physical Reality:
├─ VR: Indistinguishable from reality (full-dive, all senses)
├─ Physical: Unlimited travel (autonomous vehicles, free)
├─ Space: Tourism available (orbital, lunar, Mars)
├─ Custom experiences: Any scenario, any location
├─ Social: Connect with anyone, anywhere, anytime
└─ Cost: $0 for everything

Result: Experience scarcity eliminated
- Want to climb Everest? VR or real, both free
- Want to visit Paris? Instant travel, free
- Want to live on Mars? Habitat ready, free
- Want to be a rockstar? VR audience of millions, free

Pre-Post-Scarcity (2057):
├─ GDP: $147 trillion
├─ Median income: $42,000/year
├─ Poverty: 8% (down from 40% in 2020)
├─ Work hours: 32/week average
└─ Economic activity: Money-mediated exchange

Post-Post-Scarcity (August 1, 2058):
├─ GDP: Meaningless (no prices = no GDP calculation)
├─ Income: $0 needed (everything free)
├─ Poverty: 0% (everyone has unlimited resources)
├─ Work hours: 0 (optional only)
└─ Economic activity: CEASED (no scarcity = no economy)

Collapse Timeline:

Week 1 (August 1-7): Celebration
- "We did it! Post-scarcity achieved!"
- People request luxury goods, exotic meals
- Celebration, euphoria, partying
- Work hours: Drop 90%

Week 2 (August 8-14): Adjustment
- People stop going to work (why would they?)
- Businesses close (no customers, no need to earn money)
- Consumption spikes (everyone gets everything they want)
- Novelty still high

Month 1 (September): Hedonic Adaptation
- Luxury goods lose appeal (when everything is free, nothing is special)
- Status symbols meaningless (everyone has same access)
- Achievement hollow (robots/ASI do everything better)
- Boredom sets in

Month 3 (October): Depression Epidemic
- Clinical depression: 67% (up from 12%)
- Suicide rate: +340%
- Motivation crisis: 89% report "no reason to do anything"
- Purpose void: Everything is provided, nothing is earned

Month 6 (December 2058): Civilization Plateau
- Traditional society: ENDED (no work, no economy, no scarcity-driven structures)
- New equilibrium: Unclear
- Human activity: Minimal (why bother?)

Economic Structures:
├─ Money: Obsolete (everything is free)
├─ Jobs: Disappeared (automation + no need to earn)
├─ Markets: Ceased (no scarcity = no exchange)
├─ Banks: Closed (no money to manage)
├─ Businesses: Shut down (no profit possible)
├─ Trade: Ended (everyone can make everything)
└─ Entire economic system: DISSOLVED

Social Structures:
├─ Class: Eliminated (everyone has equal access to everything)
├─ Status: Meaningless (can't signal wealth when everyone's wealthy)
├─ Competition: Pointless (no rewards, ASI wins anyway)
├─ Achievement: Hollow (anything you do, ASI does better)
├─ Meritocracy: Dead (merit doesn't determine access)
└─ Ambition: Atrophied (no scarcity to overcome)

Psychological Structures:
├─ Motivation: Collapsed (no needs to satisfy)
├─ Delayed gratification: Irrelevant (everything instant)
├─ Work ethic: Obsolete (work is optional and pointless)
├─ Purpose: Lost (no contribution needed)
├─ Identity: Eroded (no occupation, no earning role)
└─ Drive: Extinguished (nothing to strive for)