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12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine

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Are You Terrorized of a World of Affluence?

In our world, we talk a lot about the abundance economy, in a world of abundance. That's terrifying, because then this rd thing of markets, which allows us respite from dictatorship and somebody directing our activities goes away. Soi i think i first of all start off by realizing that kind of private property in things is not something that fell out of the sky. It's a social technology. And we could consider making social technologys to make public good economys tractable, right? Like the existence of public goods by itself. Isa, and it's not good or bad, like, arguably even good, because it means that people can't co operate with each other

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