Comply with Abundance!
For the Public Announcement challenge
At an Investor Forum in 2025, Elon Musk stated that in 10-20 years, work would be optional for people because most goods and products would be abundantly produced by AI, money will be irrelevant, and technology will make human existence easy and pleasurable. Work will be more like play.
This is a public announcement from 2045:
***
The weekly distribution of foods and goods
will begin in your neighborhood tomorrow.
After your Universal High Income drops
into your digital wallet like a blessing that it is,
Report to your nearest Amazon Fulfillment Center
with proof of your documented need.
Proof is required. Repeat: Proof is required.
Photograph the thinning pantry,
the frayed sleeve, or worn-out panty,
record the appliance that croaks before failing.
Upload the evidence to your local branch
of the Universal Consumer Inventory
no later than one day
before your assigned Hour of Abundance.
Please comply. Repeat: Please comply
With the rules of the Distribution Day.
Follow the Fulfillment Center’s flow and pace.
It has been optimized for your convenience.
Do not abuse the inventory delivery robots
who remember everything anyway
(no spitting, no kicking, no sudden shutdowns).
Move efficiently. Repeat: Move efficiently
Do not gawk at the abundance.
Do not linger in awe or desire.
Take only what you need, not what you want.
Desire is inefficient and unnecessary.
Scan items strictly in the order of your inventory.
Check out fast, do not improvise.
Do not clog the parking lot when leaving.
Final reminder:
Your inventory is not valid at the underground Costco.
Please do not support that rebel organization
with your live money, whatever remains of it.
Competition is unnecessary
in a society of post-scarcity and abundance.
Happiness is compliance.
Happiness is contentment.
You must be content
with what you need and receive,
not with what you want.
Costco is a relic.
A fossil of chaos.
A memory of choice.
Do not fund the past
with income you never earned.
Thank you for participating.
Abundance continues, happiness abounds
with your non-challenging compliance.
About the Creator
Lana V Lynx
Avid reader and occasional writer of satire and short fiction. For my own sanity and security, I write under a pen name. My books: Moscow Calling - 2017 and President & Psychiatrist
@lanalynx.bsky.social
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Comments (4)
Wow... scary!!💖
Excellent fun take on the challenge
Ha ha I love to speculate about high tech future failings and this was a gem. There is of course already a global super abundance of food, it just doesn’t reach everyone who needs it.
Good 👍