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Malone: Tech will create a permanent underclass of zero-economic-value citizens
“We've got zero, we have what are called ZEVs coming, and those are zero economic value citizens. Which are people that even if you had a job opening, you would never hire them, because technology will do the job instead, and this is going to represent a sizabl…”
Mike Malone Feb 16, 2020 ▶ 7:22 1667 Top Tech Journalist Predicts We'll All Be Unemployed, Blockchain Takeover, Less Taxes!
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Malone: Governments will mandate backdoors in all blockchain technology
“And we're going to build it into blockchain. I don't know how with all those, all that security and everything else, but they're going to demand it. Because if you don't control that information or have access to that information, you lose your national sovere…”
Mike Malone Feb 16, 2020 ▶ 18:03 1667 Top Tech Journalist Predicts We'll All Be Unemployed, Blockchain Takeover, Less Taxes!
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Malone: AI will obsolete programmers while original creative writers become extremely rich
“Yeah, if you're writing code, you know, you're about to become a newspaper man. But if you can write a really good play or movie script or novel. You're going to be a very rich person.”
Mike Malone Feb 16, 2020 ▶ 27:57 1667 Top Tech Journalist Predicts We'll All Be Unemployed, Blockchain Takeover, Less Taxes!
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