Re: nanotech paradigm shift

hartly wrote:
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> Assuming in 100 years time the nanotechnology revolution has made all
> material goods so abundant and cheap that every person on the planet
> can have them along with permanent youthful bodies and brains,then
> what will become of politics and economics as we know it?.

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> Any intelligent critiques, please.?

The biggest "if" is who if anybody will be able to afford anything in such a
world. It all depends on ownership. If all significant economic activity is
non-human, nobody can work for a wage and there would only be rentiers left,
with such limited trickle down as human service of one sort or another could
provide.

You can see a range of dystopias of this sort explored in Mick Farren's "DNA
cowboys" trilogy. They rest on quite plausible socio-economic developments of
"free" goods. Or try Damon Knight's "A for Anything". PML.

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GST+NPT=JOBS

I.e., a Goods and Services Tax (or almost any other broad based production
tax), with a Negative Payroll Tax, promotes employment.

See http://member.netlink.com.au/~peterl/publicns.html#AFRLET2 and the other
items on that page for some reasons why.
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