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The Economy Is a Giant Vending Machine
“What will happen if we give away free money? Won’t people just sit on the couch all day?” Underpinning these kinds of questions are two essential assumptions: (1) that money, a vehicle we use to exchange value, is intrinsically linked to labor, and to separate the two would be like reversing gravity, and (2) that leisure is something lacking in
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Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia
Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex)slatestarcodex.com
A world in which human wages crash from AI -- logically, necessarily -- is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero. Consumer cornucopia. Everything you need and want for pennies.
when you no longer have to work to live, will you still want to live?
when intelligence is free, will you still trust your own?
when energy is limitless, will anything feel earned?
the zero cost world is not some glowing technoheaven. it’s ego death at civilizational scale. it’s the disintegration of “i matter because i do.” and most are wildly... See more
when intelligence is free, will you still trust your own?
when energy is limitless, will anything feel earned?
the zero cost world is not some glowing technoheaven. it’s ego death at civilizational scale. it’s the disintegration of “i matter because i do.” and most are wildly... See more