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    <title>Actual Intelligence - by JW Mason - Money and Things</title>
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--- I'm sympathetic (the new mode of production being prepared within the old FTW), but isn't there a fallacy of aggregation here?  Why would liquidity (etc.) still be abundant if its provision is _not_ paid for?  Admittedly, going from being a Master of the Universe to a modestly-compensated provider of a hum-drum service would be a big come-down, like going from hydraulic despotism to being a plumber, and maybe that'd be enough for Mason's argument to work.]]></description>
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