Vitalik Buterin
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This (extremely off-putting) answer reveals a key thing that's beautiful about markets: They let people express the strength of their preferences without needing to always justify their values in front of a committee. https://twitter.com/DylanMAllman/status/1776649146675712146
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Wolff’s answer makes no sense. If one cooperative, let’s call it Sony, made electronics like tvs and game consoles, and one cooperative produced food, or parts for trains, or anything else. The person who works for the train parts cooperative would just trade a certain amount of labour vouchers for a PlayStation
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We don’t live in the early 20th century anymore. Any version of socialism is going to include electronics. Truthfully, in a society with less business hierarchy there probably won’t be PlayStation and Nintendo because these are shitty companies. But there will still be video games. Probably most will be…
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…distributed freely by hobbyists and artisans who, having everything they need already, can build the games they love in their free time or as part of a cooperative of video game artisans. Probably, everything would just run on open source OSes. Probably we’d have an open database of all games free to play.
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I’d like to hear Vitalik and other pro-tech people discuss post-scarcity society. I’ve written before that truly democratized AI and automation would lead the way to post-scarcity socialism by necessity. Anything else would just be a dystopia https://warpcast.com/thumbsup.eth/0xd08ab480
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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist
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He's been on before! A second may be due at some point soon though
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