From: Ken Meyering (ken@define.com)
Date: Fri Jul 23 1999 - 17:49:26 MDT
How are federal governments equiped to tax alternative incentive
systems, such as virtual reality with direct brain stimulation?
Instead of exchanging money for goods and services, we may be
exchanging digitized sensations. Furthermore, the exchange may be
completely wireless. In this case, how would a government extract
wealth from the process of one brain exchanging digitized experience
with another brain?
In this type of economy, how does an artist or teacher pay federal
property taxes or income taxes, when the exchanges are exclusively
experiential and private in the most sensually intimate sense? When
this type of technology arrives for the general puplic, the
government will have to switch from the role of zookeeper/prison
guard to the role of agent facilitating the dismantling of the old
agencies.
How do you visualize this process actually occuring without there
being a stage of general amnesty from government prosecution?
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ken@define.com
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