Re: A Challenge To All Extropians

Eugene Leitl (eugene@liposome.genebee.msu.su)
Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:40:08 +0400 (MSD)


mark@unicorn.com writes:

> I just don't get it... what do you think all those factories are going to
> do, just stockpile products that people can't afford to buy? If people can't

A lot of production is consumed entirely within the system itself already. I
am arguing that the human consumer as the ultimative resource sink is
to be superseded in the mid-future.

> buy them, they won't be made. Like most anti-free-market arguments, this
> is just totally out of touch with anything resembling reality.

ciao,
'gene

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