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Bernardo de La Paz

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3. Thanks, but I'm unlikely to read it unless I run across a persuasive argument for the agenda elsewhere

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Mon Mar 31, 2025, 10:19 AM

Mar 2025

I'm all for abundance.

I think robotics and AI and other tech will make it possible to pay everyone a basic income of say equivalent to lower middle class. Employment could be partial employment or mostly focused on human to human contact.

IF, if, if fundamental imbalances are corrected. The current wealth & income inequalities are historically unsustainable. Society will not work if 70% of the work force is unemployed, homeless and eating Soylent Green because that's all they can afford.

I just think that erasing patents and copyrights is not going to achieve abundance.

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Patents and the Abundance Agenda [View all] Passages Mar 2025 OP

How does it work if companies can't get profits from huge R&D and media investments? Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #1

I'm not reading where they can't get profits. Fairness is the approach and it is Passages Mar 2025 #2

Thanks, but I'm unlikely to read it unless I run across a persuasive argument for the agenda elsewhere Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #3

Baker is not advocating erasing patents and or copyrights. Passages Mar 2025 #4