<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 Mon, Jun 8, 2026 at 6:32 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg3431054032145006104"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_3431054032145006104WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brent Allsop via extropy-chat</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif"> </span></i><span class="m_3431054032145006104gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">> </span></i></span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Where does the money come from?</span></i></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><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">>…Did I miss something in this long conversation?<br></font><font size="4">>…Because we just tax the bots, instead of people, as Andrew Yang is always saying, right? No taxes for people would sure be great.</font></blockquote></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" style="" face="georgia, serif"><i style=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>These bots would need to produce income in order to be able to pay the tax. Not all of them will.</i></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Spike, I'll be damned if I understand the point you're trying to <span class="gmail_default" style="">make. The money the government will need to keep tens of millions of Americans from starving to death, because they are no longer employed or employable, will come from exactly the same place that this government and every other government has always used to get money, through taxes and the printing press. And as long as the speed of their printing press is not greater than the speed of productivity increase, and as long as at least 4 of the 7 governors at the Federal Reserve are not blithering idiots, then inflation will not be a problem. </span></b></font><br></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><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg3431054032145006104"><br>
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