Raw LLM Responses

> The economy requires expenditure of energy and resources in order to generate wealth. Actually economies are about much more than that. Retail, digital/IT ,health care, professional services, etc - none of these fall under that category & yet they are the bulk of our economies. >> The best news for energy and the environment is that solar power is tending towards near zero cost. Solar energy is only six doublings — or less than 14 years — away from meeting 100 percent of today’s energy needs, using only one part in 10,000 of the sunlight that falls on the Earth. I'll requote my opening argument here, as this is happening right in front of our eyes now. The future of energy is cheap, clean, green & abundant. I don't think we can meaningfully think about our future economy in terms of the structures of today. The transition to a world where AI/Robots can replace us in doing most work, genuinely is a leap as great as that of the transition to Agriculture or Industrialization. I'm fairly sure it won't be built on the endless "growth model" we have now. That needs constant rising incomes and inflation to keep the debt fueled "growth" going; we seem headed for constant deflation & falling incomes. Many people try to figure out this economic future as if the economy is some vast Rube Goldberg Machine, where everything is decided by governments - so all change must start there. I agree part of the future, things like Basic Income, will come from there. What I wonder about - is what will individuals do? Then multiply that by the billion & its seems it is that (far more powerful than any government) is what will create this new world. Every job, service, profession, area of expertise & knowledge that AI masters, will become almost free to individuals. We even have the tech now (blockchain) to replicate & replace - currencies, banks, courts, existing government structures. We can use it build new structure for this new world - we