[ExI] Free Trade

[John Clark]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM <efc at disroot.org> wrote:

*> As long as there will be human desires, there will be jobs.*


*No there will not be, not when a machine can perform your job, my job,
everybody's job much much better than any human can, and that is going to
happen. And I'm not talking about a millennium, I'm not even talking about
a decade. *

*John K Clark*




>
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2025, John Clark via extropy-chat wrote:
>
> > How do people around here feel about free trade? When I first joined
> this list in 1993 nearly every member was a passionate advocate
> > of free trade including me, but I get the impression that is no longer
> the case; certainly He Who Must Not Be Named is about as far
> > from being a free trade advocate as it's possible to be. Even the AI
> revolution hasn't caused me to change my opinion about free
> > trade but Universal Basic Income is a different matter; back then I
> would've argued that the idea was completely impractical and I
> > would have been correct, but even then I knew that eventually something
> like it would have to be implemented, however I figured it
> > was so far in the future I didn't need to think very deeply about it.
> But the time has come.
> >
> > Have the amazing developments in AI during the last five years caused
> anybody else to change any of their economic opinions?
> >
> > John K Clark
>
> Hello John,
>
> No, certainly not me. Free trade good, UBI bad. As long as there will be
> human desires, there will be jobs.
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel
>
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