godspiral

> Revenue from new product development is projected to become the biggest contributor to the industry, estimated to generate about $4.2 trillion to fund the booming technology's global market within the next half-decade

This is false. Bain says that $4.2T of extra magic platforms/revenue needs to be fantasized, beyond what can theoretically be hoped for. Not that it will be. The primary fantasy he brings up is if the relative handful of leading scientific/health researchers spend $3T to $4.2T on tokens per year to make breakthroughs. Since this is absurd/impossible, the answer would be extending circular financing techniques where researchers can sell shares of their future profits for token credits today. Extreme discounts on those tokens would need to be given.

The $6T figure is based on simple 25% formula of what past web/cpu datacenters have spent on keeping up with competition/demand/replacements. GPUs are much more expensive, and included power infrastructure that is only profitable if the GPUs stay there. The electricity bill is much higher with GPUs and even if everything is as automated as web server farms, it is lower margins on those revenues, and the replacements are more expensive. So $8T to $10T in annual revenue is a more appropriate target, and an even more unattainable one.

UBI does have the advantage of making every single government program funded equally by everyone. An alternative to any government cost is a higher dividend cheque to all.

To use your idea though, you could join a voluntary mutualized/cooperative consumer union that buys food in bulk discounts to distribute to members, or pools 5-20 peoples UBI to buy a very large house.

> Send us a fat portion of your workers' pay to fund our Utopian vision. Or else.

The freedom that UBI provides includes your freedom to refuse the oppressive burden of becoming rich and having to pay taxes in the process.

The more people who do object to the burdens of wealth, the easier it will be for the non-retarded to become rich in their place.

Paying income taxes is completely voluntary. Don't earn any/much income and you pay 0.

Its frustrating that they are not publishing the data in such chunks. Its good that they make every year available, but for analysis/reporting, you could reasonably just care about years 2030, 2050, 2100.

1 year of data would mean 120GB files or so (assuming 100 years total)

Breaking it down by lattitude would mean 800MB lattide-year average data sets. Breaking it down by longitude would be very helpful too, and not much reason to not make that breakdown in addition to the lattitude one, which means 5mb data chunks.

Its almost as though they are being intentionally uncooperative by dumping 12TB.

Hopefully, some group makes a web interface that allows downloads in these manageable chunk sizes.