But that's (largley) the theme of the Chiang interview, technology isn't 
commensurate with selfish/evil/altruist/good individuals. Technology goes it's 
own systemic way, regardless of the specialness of the components involved. 
Capitalism requires an underclass ... if not *desperately* poor, regular good 
old fashioned poor.

On 4/19/21 8:49 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> the shareholders are too selfish to achieve something like Elysium or even 
> large private water desalination plants.    Even if there is a small evil 
> population that kills off the rest, I don't see how capitalism is going to 
> lead to that.   

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