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mlhoheisel's avatar

It's not especially futuristic as it has roots going back a couple centuries. It's one of the items on the list of Enlightenment ideals that hasn't been achieved yet. Enlightenment intellectuals in 1790 certainly understood that Slavery wasn't acceptable in just liberal democratic society, even if it wasn't clear how it would be eliminated.

The ongoing project of progressively rolling out the enlightenment includes recognizing some sort of Georgist ideal that everyone ought to have a share in common resources that in political economy are called "land". IP, EM spectrum, etc are "land".

This isn't a matter of redistribution as much as correcting the glaring maldistribution or injustice of allowing private interests to completely control assets and income streams that rightfully belong to everyone.

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Riothamus's avatar

Since all three processes are active areas of R&D, why isn't the discussion about how they will interact, rather than this 'there can only be one' argument?

I now think of this as the Highlander Fallacy.

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