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(1) We've heard this song since invention of the steam engine. Yes, dozens of horse-based and carriage-based professions disappeared due to shifts in technology. Yes, US whaling industry, once fifth largest in the economy, is no more. Yes, water-bearers, ice- and kerosene-sellers are not that common anymore, since running water, refrigeration and electric light became commonplace. But somehow there are hundreds of other professions and occupations, unheard of in the age of horse and carriage, that were created instead. There is always something to do. And always will be.

(2) Yes, of course, people will start giving away their possessions really soon now. As soon as there will be communism, which is right around the corner. I'll believe it when somebody gifts me a yacht and a beachfront house somewhere in Mediterranean. BTW, how exactly you would have your magic robots make everybody their own beachfront house in the Mediterranean?

(3) Yeah right. We just need a set of magic technologies which would do something that was never done and nobody has any remotest idea how to do it, and every attempt in the past to do it ended up in spectacular and very bloody disaster. Technology is not magic, it can do a lot but it can not change human nature and it can not produce everything out of nothing for free.

(4) Businesses are people. You're just trying to dehumanize them because these people stand in line of your agenda. While you are glad to describe how people would gift you their possessions and work for you for free, you still realize fat chance they will. So you just say - well, those not true people, those are "elites" and "businesses" and "special interests" (as if anybody but people can have interests!) and as soon as we disenfranchise them and take power to the real people - abundance and happiness will ensue. Too bad this all was already tried a hundred years ago. With exactly the same words and exactly the same promises. The result was and always will be - blood, hunger, suffering, misery and death.



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