Nathan Labenz: belief

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…need. Yeah, absolutely. I don't know what that looks like. I know, or I feel like I know some pieces of it. So I think there's an opportunity for, I did something about this like 10 or 15 years ago. Basically, if everyone is broadcast, imagine like a LinkedIn, everyone is broadcasting their capabilities. It's like I'm a trained dog sitter or whatever. So it's like you basically publish via like a daemon or something, put it out on the network that you need this thing done. I need this tile replaced on my roof. I need a dog sitter and I need someone to teach me Spanish or whatever. And that beacons to the people who are available who have those skills. And so you have this web framework thing that just links people with desires and capabilities, needs and capabilities, right? So I think that is an opportunity for a future tech-oriented alternative to an economy. I don't know. I don't feel like I'm smart enough in this area to know if that's enough. I feel like it's definitely not practical as like an alternative to what we currently have. We can't just jump to that. I don't see how that works. I don't see how people pay their landlord. I don't see how people just pay for their groceries using this. So I feel like there's probably got to be some sort of agreed upon shared system that is like paying people to survive. So I don't see an alternative to UBI needing to happen in the next few years or at least five to 10 years or whatever. I think that's probably going to need to happen. I'm guessing around 28, 29, there's going to be just a raw like demand for UBI because things will start falling apart. But I do think this tech-based exchange of need and capability will be one of these layers. Ideally, it would be the only layer. But I think that's so far in the future, even if it's possible that it's not really worth practically focusing on. What I'm most focused on is getting people where they are broadcasting those capabilities. They are broadcasting those ideas. They do believe in themselves, believe they have something worth sharing and producing and that's valuable to others. And they're actually, whatever they're paying in, Doctor O's, like Wuffy, like reputation score points, whatever they're paying in. But I think there's likely to need to be a more practical transition to that, which involves, yeah, you're actually receiving money to survive. And then maybe this other layer is like on top of that. Yeah. I think that's probably, I think that's very close to kind of the best ideas that I've come up with so far as well. I can certainly see, and it does feel exciting to imagine a kind of second level economy of like highly bespoke, highly personalized, potentially highly local services where I, for whatever reason, my mind always goes to the sort of murder mystery dinner, which I've never even done one of those, but this is something that's just obviously a luxury, obviously the kind of thing that people create these sort of highly crafted, yeah, curated experiences for each other. And that feels like it could be a great way for people to interact and express themselves and have status and value and have some exchange. But yeah, it doesn't feel like that can be the foundation for not everybody can get their calories, certainly from that kind of activities. Yeah, I think we're pretty much on the same page there. And it's crazy how crazy this stuff is, right? It's…

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