I think it all comes down to one thing: There is no Income-As-A-Service available on the internet or in industrialized society. Real technology liberates peop

I think it all comes down to one thing: There is no Income-As-A-Service available on the internet or in industrialized society. Real technology liberates people from labor and minutia. What we have today could be thought of as phantom technology (similar to phantom wealth) in that it gives the appearance of providing labor-saving devices and software without actually providing such things: http://neweconomy-wg.thenextsystem.org/visions/living-wealth-money-system/real-wealth-phantom-wealth http://neweconomy-wg.thenextsystem.org/visions/living-wealth... Under our current capitalist system, no amount of income frees someone from the daily obligations and distractions that slowly drain away the time that each of us is allotted. So we end up with millionaires that have less time than ever, or that feel undignified that they can't get out of The Matrix, who then impress their toxic worldview on things like our political system, perpetuating servitude on the masses and future generations. The vast majority of people working in technology are underemployed. University researchers spend too much time raising funding. Internet startups can raise millions and even billions of dollars if they find creative ways to turn dollars into profit, but there seems to be no funding to permanently solve problems like energy, hunger, disease, etc etc. People have tried to create their own off-the-grid societies, but these have so far been mostly unsuccessful. I'm not aware of any similar online groups that one could join and obtain a stipend just by being a member. Open source or crowd funding could possibly go this direction someday, feeding profits back into the groups instead of siphoning them off to private shareholders. IMHO the way to solve this is to get back to a grant-based system. Give researchers, hackers and makers the funding they need to solve the real problems facing the world, and we'd see outsized returns on investment almost overnight. That's why I'm a huge proponent of UBI. And also why I think the entrenched forces of the status quo will never let it happen.