From: MarcusJohn_at_aol.com
Date: Tue Aug 16 2005 - 02:28:19 UTC
In a message dated 8/15/2005 7:57:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ron_at_u2ai.us
writes:
I can understand your position, but consider a world where energy is very
cheap, robots make every thing, and each person has access to and
understands the total human knowledge base. Economics is built on scarcity.
A money system will probably always exist because it is a voting system for
limited resources, but for all practical purposes poverty as we understand
should disappear.
I think that you are 100 percent right. In fact I think that our political
goals right now, if we take a long enough view of things, should be to attempt
to create this society.
We need to make energy cheap. We need to make knowledge cheap. We need to
make manufacturing cheap (with robots).
Once we are well on our way to these goals, then poverty should disappear,
enlightenment should multiply, and wealth and comfort will abound.
We can all then concentrate on things that really matter, i.e., our
families, our spirituality, our search for knowledge, etc.
John
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