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But then you outflank them from the left in a way, and you say, oh, I want half of my company to be owned by the government.

but also current U.S.

law says that probably the government will have to buy you out.

So if we, what does that do to the OpenEye IPO if, you know, the US government's putting in a trillion dollars into it?

I actually think that the transformation of an American frontier lab into this weird state-owned enterprise type of system might actually be a great business decision for the company.

It's not necessarily great for capitalism or great for technological progress.

But, you know, I think that, you know, being the most favorite government provider and being partially government owned, there is even a national security argument for this.

Do you think capitalism can even survive full labor automation?

Capitalism can certainly survive full labor automation as long as, you know, they're still competing sort of AI entities and systems.

I do think politically it might result in basically all of the humans joining the welfare class.

And then there's a puzzling question as to whether the welfare class like retains political power or not.

I do think ultimately

some amount of restraint in the expropriation will just happen just because people, you know, people want the robots to work, even in a situation where only the robots are working.

I just don't understand why the voters would keep control of a state, right?

I think people have control of states because they're either useful as conscripts, useful as taxpayers, or potentially because they can riot in the street and, you know, overthrow the government

And that's what gives powers to protests, and protests are what gives power to sort of the welfare voting class.

Great essay.

I have not, but I'll add it to my reading list.

I do think that the political economy of the U.S.

will be profoundly transformed even by partial automation.