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Sent: February 11, 2000 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: The Bill of Gates
fallacy
[snip]
In this way may evolve a rationale for paying people for consuming. This is
where some similarity with the Tobin tax perhaps becomes most explicit. We may
see emerge what some writers have already anticipated: micropayments on
numerous purchases, i.e. payments based on bits of information. While
individually miniscule, in the aggregate the pay out may be substantial.
I think we should also be paid when we do the corporation's
work for them--as in self-serve gas stations, wading through voice menus, and
the soon-to-come automated supermarket
checkout.
