By incorporating ideas of economists, science fiction can explore a future of automation.

The “dark” kind of science fiction deals with the foundation of economics, which is scarcity. There is a fear that poverty will come faster as automation continues to devalue human labor.

• The Hunger Games gave us a neo-Depression dystopia where media-obsessed elites torment the starving lower classes.
• The Expanse is about class warfare.
• The 1950 Foundation series was partly about saving the galaxy with sound economic programs.
• The 2012 novel Three ...