What do you think? "By 2035, the four pillars of Abundance—food, energy, education, and health—will be democratized through autonomous systems and AI. What used to be charity work becomes an AI-enabled protocol."

 I find this vision both compelling and worth deeply examining. 

The optimistic case is true: We're already seeing parts of it—AI tutors personalizing education at scale, diagnostic AI reaching underserved areas, precision agriculture optimizing yields, and renewable energy costs dropping. The convergence of AI with robotics, biotech, and distributed systems could truly make basics much more accessible. However, I am skeptical of the framing in several ways: "Democratized" might hide new dependencies. If these systems are controlled by a few tech companies or require vast computational infrastructure, we've simply shifted control over survival. The protocol might be more efficient than charity, but "decentralized abundance" could conceal centralized power. Human needs are not only material. Food, energy, education, and health delivered through optimized protocols might meet biological needs but miss relational, cultural, and meaning-making aspects. A perfectly personalized AI education isn't the same as learning within a community. Healthcare isn't just about diagnosis and treatment—it's also about being seen and heard. The transition period could be difficult. Even if the 2035 endpoint seems utopian, the journey there involves significant job displacement, power struggles over control of these systems, and the possible weaponization of scarcity during the transition. "What used to be charity" suggests that need will disappear. But new forms of scarcity often arise—attention, status, agency, purpose. And if basic needs are met by protocol, what becomes of human motivation and social cohesion?