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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
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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