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> "Is money a birthright now? Do we just get born and get money from the government?" Republican Rep. John Gillette told Business Insider. "Because I think the
by abeppu 9mo ago
> "Is money a birthright now? Do we just get born and get money from the government?" Republican Rep. John Gillette told Business Insider. "Because I think the Founding Fathers would say that is very contrary to our capitalist system and encouraging people to work."
I think the other perspective is that the US _has_ historically been comfortable with giving away property in the Homestead Act, land rushes, the Oregon Land Donation act etc. These were giving away _capital_, and the people needed to provide the labor to make it productive.
IDK what a future-facing equivalent should look like. Should we all own datacenter racks? Robot factory lines?
- thatguy0900 9mo agoEveryone gets their own Ai chat bot at birth (maybe with a physical robot for it to pilot) and it's up to them to direct it in ways that produce value?
- gcheong 9mo agoMaybe something more akin to the Alaska Permanent Fund - just replace oil revenue with AI? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund
- jauntywundrkind 9mo agoRAM. The pro-human state of the future has fabs & distributes ram to it's citizen. I actually do think it would be incredibly interesting to have state sponsored data centers. Give folks a VPS. Give folks some incredibly affordable services.