[ExI] The Price of Life (was Re: Midazolam, Memory Erasure, and Identity)

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:47:31AM -0700, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:

> "Bill Gates owns everything in the world" may technically look like a 
> self-consistent private property framework, but the problem is that no 
> one except Bill Gates has a motive to believe in it.  Others may wake 
> up from the dream if they have no stake.

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1965149,00.html

"World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers"
"50% of world's adults own just 1% of the wealth"

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