Green Leopard PlagueWalter Jon Williams
Green Leopard Plague
by Walter Jon Williams · first published 2010
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Any sci-fi recommendations on post-scarcity economics? I'll offer one by Walter Jon Williams, https://libertyislandmag.com/2019/07/19/sci-fi-book-review-t... > “The Green Leopard Plague” is the story for which this collection is named. It is the best work I’ve seen in explaining how economics and taxes would work in a post-scarcity world. How do you make people pay taxes and do dirty…
on “Sam Altman: AI will generate enough wealth to pay each adult $13.5K a year” ↗Walter Jon Williams' The Green Leopard Plague, which is also part of an anthology of the same name. The anthology includes several other stories that build up the world that GLP takes place in. Some interesting ideas about identity and consciousness…
on “Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012” ↗Another sci-fi story on post-scarcity economics, Walter Jon Williams "The Green Leopard Plague", part 1 here. Remainder in anthology of same name. http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0311/greenl.shtml
on “Ask HN: What project would you work on if you had half a year of free time?” ↗There's an excellent SF novella, Walter Jon Williams' The Green Leopard Plague, where Transnistrian corruption happens to be a major plot device. The other characters derisively call the Transnistrian government "Trashcanistanis." This story was my first encounter with Transnistria,…
on “Letter from Transnistria” ↗