[ExI] Socialism

[John Clark]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 11:19 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:


>
> *>  the richest man in the world says that in a decade, money won'tmatter
> anymore and that the treasury will be writing everyone checks tolive off
> of, paid for not by taxes, but by surplus production*


*In this case I think the richest man in the world is correct (assuming
that things like "the US treasury" and "human beings" still exist in a
decade) , but it illustrates why I said Elon Musk is not emotionally stable
because the above is completely incompatible with his activities during the
embarrassing DOGE fiasco.*


*John K Clark*






On 2026-10-19 12:42, John Clark via extropy-chat wrote:
>
> > Whatever a logical person's view of socialism may have been in the
> > past, today we are in the foothills of the AI singularity so it's
> > necessary to radically rethink one's position because, unless an AI
> > decides to kill us all, a vast increase in socialism (but not
> > communism) is most certainly coming. And it doesn't matter if you or I
> > like it or not.
>
> Here is a portion of an interview of Elon Musk by the editor of the
> economist:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8YEdm-ZTgT4
>
> When the richest man in the world says that in a decade, money won't
> matter anymore and that the treasury will be writing everyone checks to
> live off of, paid for not by taxes, but by surplus production, I have to
> think that socialism is going to become a distinction without a
> difference from capitalism.
>
> Stuart LaForge
> _
>
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