kind of society John Maynard Keynes foresaw in 1928, when he claimed that in a century technological advances would create an age of abundance in which no one would need to worry about making money, leaving us with the challenge of how best to use the resulting freedom and leisure. Keynes left out the crucial mechanism for distributing the gains from technological advances in such a way that nearly everyone would have the means of benefitting from them. A basic minimum, financed through reduced property rights for the future heirs of owners of breakthrough technologies, would realize Keynes’s
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