sounds like Google

Yeah, exactly. I’ve always believed that Ai will come out of search engine companies sooner than it will come out of a robotics lab.

Famous books have been founded on less ;-D

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‘Making money’: is it a silly question to ask how you do that? I can understand money changing hands quite easily. I can understand that changing technology can ‘create wealth’. But the total number of dollars in the world appears to be increasing rapidly. Where are they all coming from? Who gets to increase the total number, and who gets the extra ones? Or is this a really dumbass question (cos it doesn’t feel like it)?

Interesting concept class. It rules our society. It is measured in money.

People like Sir Peter Maxwell an English billionaire that I communicate with sometimes are incredibly funny with their presentation of themselves.

Recently he said that the lower class`s are meant to be sacrificed in time of war for the greater good of money makers like himself. Seriously.

He said that once a year people such as himself buy a red poppy and bow their heads in silence for 2 minutes. Then they get back to the real business of making money.

He also said he considers the lower class to be like bugs that hit the windscreen of his Rolls Royce.

He is a real trip. Very honest . A buddy of Rubert Murdoch.

If you want some real fun perhaps you could interview Sir Peter Maxwell. Tell him I sent you. He doesn`t really like me , but we have had some great and funny arguments.
If you wanted to interview a billionaire and get his take I bet he would do it. He loves the attention.
Just an idea.

This is the reason why most things never work out right for anybody. Money. The false hood of money being a good arbiter of judgement.

This money is always the final arbiter in this type of society.
Does it make money.? If not , it will not be done.
There are exceptions to this rule , but few.

We have all these people who want things. The natural thing to do would just be to take them. It’s laughable that the only thing separating us from millions of dollars of electronics equipment is a thin sheet of glass and a loud noise. I mean, that is literally a joke, isn’t it!?

And sure there is the threat of police if you do something like that. But the police are really only a symbol of loss of social standing. The flip-side of that is that we’re taught that money *gives* us social standing, by allowing us to choose how other people see us by the things that we purchase and surround ourselves with.

So all money does is it says to us that there is a physical limit to the fulfillment of our desires. And it channels our efforts to fulfill desires into certain socially-prescribed avenues.

The person who goes out and simply steals money is trying to circumvent this manipulative structure. But they are missing the boat. They are still buying into the larger myth that the money they steal can then allow them to manipulate the opinions of others and of themselves. Whereas the real trick would be to directly work on those areas completely outside of the realm of money or material goods altogether.

Which is where the materialist says: What realm is that? And scratches their head.

I found it interesting when I was reading about the online VR world, SecondLife how they were saying that - I think - the game originally started with no currency. But people got bored with the limitless ability to just go around and do anything. So they created Linden Dollars because people found that to be more “fun” somehow. Because people are accustomed to creatively limiting the fulfillment of their desires.

…which is a worst case scenario.

not really that hellish, more of an amusing purgatory, at worst.

Definition of a criminal ; An individual with predatory interests that can not afford to start a corporation.

It is assuming , your idea , a future with money , which is a worst case scenario.

There is of course one question that no machine or human can answer.
Why.

Better hurry up and write this , while there still is a future.