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consider the implications for a post scarcity future (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

I mean, in a lot of ways he didn't care about the economics of his inventions. He wanted to transfer electricity wirelessly across huge areas and there really wasn't a way to monetise that if everyone could just tap into that.

In a communist society you could build something like that, in capitalism you're not going to find an investor to do this.

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