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What do people build when survival is solved? What Abundance Built is a history of the human surplus — the rare places where a society secured more food and energy than it needed, and poured the leftover time into culture. From the salmon-coast potlatch and the seven-harvest chinampas of Tenochtitlan to El Dorado's gold, the moai of Rapa Nui, and the molas still sewn by the Guna today, we build the argument that free time becomes art, story, and monument — and then test it against the shadow side: hierarchy, slavery, sacrifice, and the collapse stories that turn out to be myths. It closes on the present: AI and near-limitless energy as the next surplus, and the oldest question of all — who gets the free time, and what is the surplus for? History-first and evenhanded, working from archaeology and peer-reviewed scholarship. Narrated by AI voices from sourced, human-reviewed research.
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Technology and energy leaders are promising a new age of abundance on the back of artificial intelligence and near-limitless power. After meeting the salmon coast, the chinampas, the gold, the moai, and the molas, we can
This is the reckoning. After five societies that turned surplus into culture, we ask the hard question honestly: does abundance produce flourishing, or hierarchy and a hunger that never fills? We stage the great traditio
Every other society in this series we meet as ruins or museum pieces. The Guna of Guna Yala — the San Blas islands of Panama — you can still watch. Their reef-and-forest abundance supports an extraordinary textile art, t
Easter Island is the world's favorite parable: a people who used up their abundance, cut down the last tree, and destroyed themselves. The giant moai stand as the warning — and the newest evidence says it's mostly wrong.
In the highlands of what is now Colombia, two vanished worlds turned their farming surplus into pure cosmology. The carvers of San Agustín left more than six hundred megalithic statues and then disappeared centuries befo
The Aztecs built what may be the most productive farmland of the pre-industrial world — not by conquering more land, but by engineering it. The chinampas, artificial garden islands in the lakes of the Valley of Mexico, c
On the temperate-rainforest coast of the Pacific Northwest, the salmon ran so thick that a few weeks of fishing could feed a community for a year. That surplus bought a whole winter of free time, and the Haida, Tlingit,
Before anyone could carve a totem pole, raise a pyramid, or hammer gold into the shape of a god, somebody first had to be fed without spending every waking hour finding the next meal. The opening episode lays out the spi
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