Patrick Peterson

“Sometimes people lie to reach their goals. Me, for instance. Every day I lie to the unemployed, tell them not to give up hope.”
― Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

“Up to this time,” it continued, “economic resources have been distributed on the basis of contributions to production, with machines and men competing for employment on somewhat equal terms. In the developing cybernated system, potentially unlimited output can be achieved by systems of machines which will require little cooperation from human beings. “The continuance of the income-through-jobs link as the only major mechanism for distributing effective demand—for granting the right to consume—now acts as the main brake on the almost unlimited capacity of a cybernated productive system.” The Committee urged that the link be broken by “an unqualified commitment” by society to provide, through its appropriate legal and governmental institutions, “every individual and every family with an adequate income as a matter of right.” [All italics mine.] To be provided—by whom? Blank out.”
― Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“By 2041, in wealthier societies, people will find that their definition of happiness is evolving, as people advance from hedonic happiness to eudaimonic happiness.”
― Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

“It is too obvious, too easily demonstrable that fascism and communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory—that both are variants of statism, based on the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of the state—that both are socialistic, in theory, in practice, and in the explicit statements of their leaders—that under both systems, the poor are enslaved and the rich are expropriated in favor of a ruling clique—that fascism is not the product of the political “right,” but of the “left”—that the basic issue is not “rich versus poor,” but man versus the state, or: individual rights versus totalitarian government—which means: capitalism versus socialism.52”
― Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal