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Yes, so there will be all sorts of attempts, and the productive forces will compete with each other, while landowners and owners of harder to disrupt industries will have the power to choose among them, deciding who will be allowed to be successful and who will fail.

There isn't a single ordinary person at the table, no labour unions, no political parties or anything democratic. It's Microsoft, it's Google, it's some venture-capital owned French firm, some venture-capital owned German firm, etc. Maybe if Schmidhuber's stuff is good as he hopes it is maybe there'll be an Austrian firm, etc., but mostly, it'll be a capital intensive business controlled by people with capital.



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