money

“I think long term, I think money disappears as a concept, honestly. It's kind of strange, but in, in a future where anyone can have anything I think you no longer need money as a database for labor allocation. If there's, if AI and robotics are big enough to s…”

“So I think that probably We probably won't have money, and probably we'll just have energy, you know, power generation as the de facto currency.”

“Money is really an information system for labor allocation. Like, people think, some of us think money is power in and of itself, but it doesn't really, it's, if there's no labor to allocate, it's meaningless.”

“You look at studies of history and you find in studies of history what brings about happiness and health past a certain amount of money. Of basic subsistence life. There's no correlation between the amount of money you have and the amount of healthy happiness …”

“It's most obvious in the case of religion, but even if you look at something like the economy corporations, money, all of these things are stories that we invented. They did, they don't have an objective existence outside our imagination.”