From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 09:07:09 MST
john grigg wrote:
>
> Cool! So we only work for personal satisfaction and for status?
Yes, in the same way that we now farm only for personal satisfaction and status.
> I could see powerful gov't and
> corporate interests wanting to stop this level of prosperity and personal
> freedom from ever happening, though.
Name three.
There are very, very few people out there who get up in the morning and
say to themselves: "Today, I will do my best to make the world a more
miserable place." I can see all kinds of powerful interests opposed to
individual changes of the type I predict, and powerful interests opposed
to any sort of massive change in the workplace, but without exception,
they will *not* see themselves as working to stop "prosperity" or
"personal freedom".
Of course, I could be wrong. You should have heard what they called
Ford when he first proposed doubling the wage of his workforce -
capitalists really thought of themselves as a class, back then. (Was it
the Wall Street Journal who called him a traitor? Hard to remember, it
was a long time ago.)
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sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://pobox.com/~sentience/beyond.html
Member, Extropy Institute
Senior Associate, Foresight Institute
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