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Old 05-15-2013, 10:31 AM  
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Originally Posted by CDSmith View Post
They're putting the cart before the proverbial horse. First we have to invent the food replicator, which will negate the need for a currency-based system. Once we get rid of concepts like 'money', 'cost' etc we can start putting efforts into exploring space, the lure of the final frontier being the motivator rather than billions and billions of "dollars", whatever those were. Then we can go find and meet whoever's out there.

Personally I can't wait. Got my Vulcan "live long and prosper" hand salute down to a science.
productivity will stop if there is no incentive to work...in communist countries people did not really have to work...look how that ended...

humans are inherently lazy...2000 year old scrolls say the same thing as today:

"todays youth is lazy and unmotivated and likes women and beer and does not like to work" (true story)

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