With pocket money we prepare schoolchildren for the part of their lives during which some people to whom they are not related will use money to make them do, every weekday for about eight hours, things they do not really want to do. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
[But] if you imagine a world of real abundance. Like a world where we built the right artificial intelligence that’s just pulling wealth out of the atmosphere and no-one really has to work anymore, because we literally have machines that can build machines that can build machines, that are all powered by sunlight, that do everything better than we can. Now why wouldn’t that be some kind of utopia?..
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