[ExI] relationships with money, was: RE: extropy-chat Digest, Vol 152, Issue 3

[William Flynn Wallace]

In light of that fact, the answer to question:  Do we take their money? I
would suggest, eh… no.  Definitely, no, unless every member of that “we” is
ready to do life in the big house.
spike

Oh we do take their money - progressive taxes.  As for Dan's 'solution',
stop having politicians that are bought, I beg answers to how to accomplish
that.  It seems that a bit of larceny is built into humans.  Will robots
running AI be as corruptible?  (what use does a robot have for money?  I
can think of many things and probably Spike a lot more!)

bill w

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:55 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> too much, but this too much is mostly a subjective judgment, no? Sure, some
> people wallow in consumption, but, again, how much is too much? How is that
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> Hi Dan, for those who live outside the USA, I perhaps should remind them
> of how of how our legal system works in the USA.  If a group of people
> participate in a felony as a group, then any person in that group is slain
> in the commission of that felony, (including perishing by gunshot wound
> fired by the victim) then every member of that group is charged and most
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> In light of that fact, the answer to question:  Do we take their money? I
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