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Income From Capital Not Labor in Solved World

The solved world need not require all human desires to be satisfied; even if many desire ever more wealth, individuals could not meaningfully increase income through their own labor (like a billionaire earning $5/hour at McDonald's), so income would come from owned capital or social transfers like UBI rather than direct labor.

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Speaker

Nicholas Bostrom

Evidence Quote

we would be making all our income from either the capital we own or from social transfers with governments paying UBI or other sources rather than through direct labor

Source

Purpose, Pleasure, and Meaning in a World Without Work (with Nicholas Bostrom)EconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:04:44 AM

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