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Preprint . 2026
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Darwin's Vision Realized: Evolution Beyond Scarcity in the Abundance Economy

Authors: Waford, Lon Douglas;

Darwin's Vision Realized: Evolution Beyond Scarcity in the Abundance Economy

Abstract

Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theories, as articulated in On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871), are profoundly anchored in a worldview of scarcity, where the “struggle for existence” arises from limited resources—food, mates, territory—driving natural and sexual selection, adaptation, and speciation. This paper argues that the emergence of an abundance economy, powered by advanced technologies such as artificial general intelligence (AGI/ASI), robotics, fusion energy, and reusable spacecraft like Starship, transcends these Malthusian constraints. In this post-scarcity paradigm, humanity shifts from passive, competition-fueled evolution to active, self-directed bio-technological progress, including genetic engineering, space colonization, and AI-augmented adaptation. Rather than refuting Darwin, abundance evolves his vision into a practical reality, freeing evolution from brutality and enabling purposeful flourishing. Ironic humor underscores how capitalist innovations “upgrade” survival of the fittest, with robots and fusion outcompeting nature’s red-in-tooth-and-claw mechanisms, all while maintaining ideological neutrality.

Keywords

Artificial intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, abundance economy, Darwinian Evolution, AGI/ASI, natural selection, self-directed evolution, Artificial Intelligence/trends, Malthusian constraints, bio-technological advancement, space colonization, post-scarcity, technological transcendence

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