Mark Hamilton introduces an idea from the "12 visions" era summarized by the slogan "become a millionaire without lifting a finger." He argues that advances (e.g., falling costs of compute and other values) will drive the cost of living down while value rises, producing abundance so people will live better than today's millionaires and reducing incentives for crime.
Back in the 12 visions party days, there was a little slogan, and it was become a millionaire without lifting a finger. And that's basically what happens in this new country, because the cost of living will be driven to fractions while values rise toward infinity. You will live better than millionaires today even without lifting a finger? Even without. So why would there be crime if you're wealthy in the civilization? Well, how do you become wealthy? Well, the cost of, of values is going to drop to fractions. We saw that, for example, with computer power and.
