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Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to our March live stream.

We'll go ahead and get started with your questions in just a moment.

Just a bit of a heads up.

We will go ahead and talk about the virus a little bit today, but I'd really rather stick to you most of the usual content and shows.

So try to aim your questions mostly that direction, and we'll bring them through as we're going.

I saw one just a moment ago as we were getting started about post-scarcity civilizations,

and GT Plus Racing had asked, I asked what tech did you think would lead to a post-scarcity society?

You answered automation with the caveat of power.

I can see it happening, but without major period of trouble, thoughts?

Okay, post-scarcy is always kind of tricky to discuss, but we actually have that coming

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