From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sun Feb 18 2001 - 19:34:38 MST
Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> In a sense, but, pre-nanotech, the notion is that the GI would be marginal,
> just enough to scrape by on. The incentive to earn more will remain
> unchanged; only the soul-destroying scrounging for bare necessities will be
> absent.
This will be true for some. Others will spend it on, or trade it for,
whatever is foremost in their mind. Lotto tickets, porn, liquor ("People
throw away food. I never find liquor in a dumpster"), etc.
Even a GI (/NIT) will not stop people with limited foresight from acting
as if they had limited foresight.
This is a tough "brother's keeper" problem.
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