Add unlimited free energy (we'll have that in the next ten years) and the only limited resources are land and mates, and if we're not going to need "money" for anything else, what really is it?

I agree, and I'm not anti-capitalist. But once the system has produced "intelligent" robots that can build our houses, fix our cars, perform surgery, and do our dishes, it has won, and there's no further use for the motivation it provides. And its cultural mythology becomes useless and an obstacle.

Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.

And I don't see anything that can be done that preserves either the current capitalist system or the cultural mythology that supports it. Even the Palo Alto libertarians are floating UBI, but they all imagine it somehow supplementing/augmenting capitalism. I don't see how that could work.

Within Trump's current term we'll see unemployment above 25%, which is higher than it ever got in the the great depression, and it'll 1) happen much faster and 2) first affect a class of people (white collar middle- to upper-income desk jockeys) who haven't been conditioned to accept defeat.

gonna be lit when it opens in 2079 🔥

this is why Trump is terrified of ABC News in particular (it's by far the most watched news outlet in the country):
(via @dankennedy.net linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/bari-weiss...)

this is why Trump is terrified of ABC News in particular (it's by far the most watched news outlet in the country):
(via @dankennedy.net linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/bari-weiss...)