Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

But I do think some form of call it abundant capitalism or capitalism 2.0 or post-scarce capitalism, something like that,

probably emerges.

It may not happen immediately.

It may not happen as quickly in this country, but it will get there eventually.

Based on public reporting, China already has that policy.

So it would be a weird future if the U.S.

is adopting policy prescriptions from the Chinese Communist Party for AI reskilling.

But maybe that's the near future we find ourselves in.

I, for one, think a redistributive model of a quote unquote social contract shows an extreme lack of imagination.

I would like to think that superintelligence should also super empower individuals to generate super income is one of the reasons why I, for one, embedding on more of a model where the

There may be even no strong need for a social contract if we can empower the long tail of individuals who have idiosyncratic skills or experiences or socioeconomic niches to operate their own large companies sitting on top of fleets of AI agents.

I would love to see, in short, no need for a new social contract and instead have the

people who would otherwise be technologically unemployed or, or disemployed with by empowering them to become basically micro entrepreneurs or even macro entrepreneurs to turn them all into Warren Buffett.

But that's in the long, longer run.

I don't think it's going to happen.

I think it's in the short run.

I don't, I think, I think that can be done almost immediately.

I'm betting that it can be done almost immediately.

And universal basic services give people the ability to- I like UBS much more than Andrew's proposal that we just try to fragment currencies into lots of paternalistic sub-currencies that aren't fungible.

That to me seems like a recipe for disaster and for black markets.