Re: Star Trek Politics

[William T Goodall]

Well, it's that post-scarcity economics thing. Not quite Banks' Culture 
but getting there. Housing, education, medicine, pensions are all 
wrapped up in the basic citizens' package.  Someone can not work a day 
in their lives and be housed, fed, entertained and cared for to a basic 
package that is equivalent to being rich today.

To get more than that - like a chef making your food rather than a 
replicator - you have to cash in points  that aren't quite like money 
but sort of do the same job. And to make those points you have to do 
some kind of service. Like serving other people...

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Of course with  Vernor Vinge's idea of the Singularity there is no 
intermediate stable zone like that. Instead there is a tipover point to 
the massively haves and the left behind...



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William T Goodall
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will _not_ result in the greatest work of all time. Just look at 
Windows.

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