
Yuval Noah Harari & Daniel Kahneman - Death Is Optional
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What to Do With the New Class of People?
The biggest question in maybe in economics and politics of the coming decades will be what to do with all these useless people. I don't think we have an economic model for that. My best guess at present is a combination of drugs and computer games. It's already happening. Under different titles, different headings, you see more and more time solving the inner problems with drugs or computer games. This is just a wild guess. We are again in analogous position to the world in 1800 when the Industrial Revolution begins,. You see the emergence of a new class of the urban proletariat, which is a new social and political phenomenon. The old answers were irrelevant. Nobody remembers the Mahadein today because
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