Kevin Brown
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And then there's a lot of embedded assumptions and winners and losers and democracies and, you know, underhanded.
But...
But it gets less complicated if they accumulate those billions and then pull the Bill Gates maneuver.
That helps.
But there's definitely, the society's gonna create the wealth and it's gonna have to find a balance between not letting people starve to death in the slums.
And in fact, there could be enough of a productivity gain that you can still have really rich people, but the rising tide, it's not trickle down, it's rising tide.
And so back to the live forever pill, there's probably a very high fixed cost to develop it, but it's probably a pretty low cost to manufacture it.
And so, you know, could you, could you crank out 10 billion pills?
Let's cure cancer for everyone.
For sure.
In the slums too, everywhere.
And look, if any of us are lucky enough to be that next billionaire, maybe take half.
Society can create an environment.
Like, and this has happened with the internet, happened with the printing press, whatever.
Only if I have a 100% reliable kill switch.
Well, and it's really, it's a humanity thing, right?
You know, think of, you know, Hitler or like, you know, think of an example, like, you know, like at the full end of the spectrum and you're going to save, you know, millions of other lives.
I share it.
What do you think they would want?
But the question is, can they choose to take it or not?