<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM <<a href="mailto:efc@disroot.org">efc@disroot.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>As long as there will be human desires, there will be jobs.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>No there will not be<span class="gmail_default" style="">, 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. </span>And I'm not talking about a millennium, I'm not even talking about a decade.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On Tue, 7 Oct 2025, John Clark via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
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> How do people around here feel about free trade? When I first joined this list in 1993 nearly every member was a passionate advocate<br>
> 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<br>
> 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<br>
> trade but Universal Basic Income is a different matter; back then I would've argued that the idea was completely impractical and I<br>
> would have been correct, but even then I knew that eventually something like it would have to be implemented, however I figured it<br>
> was so far in the future I didn't need to think very deeply about it. But the time has come. <br>
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> Have the amazing developments in AI during the last five years caused anybody else to change any of their economic opinions?<br>
> <br>
> John K Clark <br>
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Hello John,<br>
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No, certainly not me. Free trade good, UBI bad. As long as there will be <br>
human desires, there will be jobs.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Daniel<br>
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