<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;background-color:transparent">On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 11:19 PM Stuart LaForge 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"><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" face="georgia, serif"><i><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span> the richest man in the world says that in a decade, money won't<br></span>matter anymore and that the treasury will be writing everyone checks to<br>live off of, paid for not by taxes, but by surplus production</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>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 <span class="gmail_default" style="">it</span> illustrates why I said Elon Musk is not emotionally stable because the above is completely incompatible with his activities during the embarrassing DOGE fiasco.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font><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">On 2026-10-19 12:42, John Clark via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
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> Whatever a logical person's view of socialism may have been in the<br>
> past, today we are in the foothills of the AI singularity so it's<br>
> necessary to radically rethink one's position because, unless an AI<br>
> decides to kill us all, a vast increase in socialism (but not<br>
> communism) is most certainly coming. And it doesn't matter if you or I<br>
> like it or not.<br>
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Here is a portion of an interview of Elon Musk by the editor of the <br>
economist:<br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8YEdm-ZTgT4" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8YEdm-ZTgT4</a><br>
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When the richest man in the world says that in a decade, money won't <br>
matter anymore and that the treasury will be writing everyone checks to <br>
live off of, paid for not by taxes, but by surplus production, I have to <br>
think that socialism is going to become a distinction without a <br>
difference from capitalism.<br>
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Stuart LaForge<br>
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