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So, optimizing utility changes over many parallel worlds actually also optimizes wealth itself over time. That’s sort of the message.

“we have entered a different phase for the economy, a new era where production matters less and what matters more is access to that production: distribution, in other words—who gets what and how they get it”[282]. In this context, there

The Solow model predicts that countries that save more become relatively prosperous and countries with rapid population growth become relatively poorer, and shows that the only way the economy can grow in the long run is by making technological progress.

Perhaps most important, artificial intelligence and biotechnology are giving humanity the power to reshape and reengineer life.

All in all, technology doesn’t make jobs irrelevant—far from it, as suggested by the uninterrupted growth of proximity services in expanding urban areas.

So, participation is risky in that sense.