Comment by Nick Bostrom

Everyone on the planet would be invited to become a shareholder.

On the left, you could imagine better social services, maybe a universal basic income, extended employment, insurance, other things of that sort.

This idea is not about employee share ownership like in the post-war decades in France, but rather the notion that capital will no longer need labor to generate wealth, and that it will therefore be necessary to redistribute this immense wealth throu...