Fourth industrial revolution and the transformation of capitalism into the post-scarcity society

This diploma thesis aims to evaluate post-scarcity and utopian theories in response to the current economic changes in developed countries to identify, whenever a theory is able to explain the current trends and providing a realistic economic outcome on post-scarcity society. This thesis deals with the resource scarcity, labour scarcity and role of the medium of exchange in theories; together with unconditional income, polarization of labour and technological progress in the transposing developed economies to the 4th industrial revolution