Wealthy societies from the Medici to the Mongols all pursued the same four things: food, art, music, and sex. As abundance grows, especially in a space-age future, this pattern will only intensify. People are already shifting from buying stuff to chasing experiences.
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I think you could have both, by the way. There's, there's nothing— We could tent our gardens on Mars. Well, you could do whatever. The problem is you have optionality in a way you would never have in a previous world, and I think that's the really incredible part. The— I'll go back to our historical, um, experience. When you see societies that have experienced abundance, maybe not the spacefaring abundance that we may be coming up with in the next few decades, the Medici family Yeah, the, the Romans conquering, the Mughals conquering India, the, the Mongols conquering most of Asia, etc. They ended up doing 4 things: food, art, music, and sex. And I joke, not in that order. And so that's what I think we'll spend a lot more time— note, already people are spending much more time going after experiences than trying to acquire things.