Exactly the same people who now pay for our unfair, underfree society:
All of us.
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> . . .who would pay. . .?
Speaking of which:
The Emperor Has No Clothes: Socrates Deconstructs Singularity University
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYq5EVHXViM
"The very essence of SU's business model, in five words:
'Create scarcity to sell abundance, and charge an arm and
a leg for it.'"
(I dunno, maybe I should have posted this comment down below at
"Robocultic Q & A With a Tech Journalist". ;-> )
Merry Christmas!
Socrates is dead.
So's Sargon of Akkad, but sadly this doesn't seem to shut him up.
I mean only to expose an imposter.
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