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I think Banks gets the destination right, but getting there could be economically ugly

I've been reading Iain M. Banks recently, and what I find most interesting about the Culture is not the giant spaceships or even the superintelligent Minds. It is the economic assumption underneath the whole civilization. Nobody really needs a job. Machines can produce almost anything people requir…

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  1. 2026-09-20 08:42 · r/singularity
    I think Banks gets the destination right, but getting there could be economically ugly

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