Gerhard’s Reviews > The Economics of Star Trek: The Proto-Post-Scarcity Economy > Status Update
Gerhard
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'As I’ve said, I’m a huge fan of the mid-20th-century French intellectual Georges Bataille. I like to find an excuse to work him into all of my works. I did not, sadly, pull this off in my book Man Nup: A Groom’s Guide to Heroic Wedding Planning. That would have been weird.'
— Dec 14, 2020 07:16AM
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Gerhard
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'Then there’s the matter of Quark’s bar. What’s up with that? He never seems to charge anyone for drinks, yet is obsessed with money.'
— Dec 14, 2020 06:54AM
Gerhard
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'The big challenge here is how does society get someone to do the menial jobs that cannot be done in an automated manner.'
— Dec 14, 2020 04:37AM
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'In a world of robots and AIs making things very cheaply, where will all the people in the Global South go to in search of employment and the good life?'
— Dec 14, 2020 03:55AM