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The idea is that we will develop such stunning abundance that living costs will be very inexpensive and a basic income will be a manageable cost for the government.

Silver got lucky a couple times with predictions and people believe everything he and his company says now. Now that they have clout, they use their predictions to push an agenda, which is why their predictions are so innaccurate.

I have been working on classic mopeds (with the pedals) for the last 10 years. I know everything there is to know about internal combustion mopeds. I wish I could ride a clean electric version. But the Italian-style, legs-together scooter look is just so painfully lame.

Men want to ride something sexier. This is my benchmark: http://bikevx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/featured5.jpg

There is plenty of room for batteries and a drive train on that type of bike.

Please do this Flux!

Tell him to make a sexier bike. The Italian moped look is lame.

Why didn't they follow the Tesla model? Sexy high-end bike first, then move into more economy-class rides later.

[dead] 10 years ago

I tried it. It is a distraction. It is better to go deep than broad.

Maximum Wage 10 years ago

Limiting maximum wage would drive people to found their companies overseas and outsource to America.

Which resources are we running out of? The Earth is made out of the same stuff as us. It's huge.

We are not running out of resources. We may be running low on easily accessed, cheap resources.

We will adapt. New mining tech and asteroid mining will give more resources than we could use. There's accessible asteroids that have enough platinum to give each person on earth thousands of dollars. That's just one of millions. The resources will never run out.

This article reads like the rantings of someone who was well educated long ago, but has since watched daytime news every day.

The world is more peaceful than ever. You are less likely to die to violence now than at any other point in history. Medicine is better than any other point in history. As populations grow larger, they also grow older and people have fewer kids.

We aren't going to overpopulate the earth. We aren't going to run out of materials. We aren't going to destroy the environment. We aren't going to blow up the earth.

That is lazy thinking. Life has grown and expanded for billions of years. Humanity will continue growing and expanding into the future. We couldn't stop it if we tried.