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kakoni6758 t1_ja3bt8b wrote

Reply to comment by IluvBsissa in An ICU coma patient costs $600 a day, how much will it cost to live in the digital world and keep the body alive here? by just-a-dreamer-

Basically it will not approaches to zero Since, governments works on energy distribution and collection. So people have to pay taxes to run them

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IluvBsissa t1_ja3g14b wrote

Unless it's full automated luxury communism we're talking about.

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gay_manta_ray t1_ja55lx9 wrote

just theorizing here, and trying to stay close to the realm of known physics, but if fusion power could be miniaturized and be made modular (think something like 5kW modular fusion power "blocks"), energy infrastructure could be completely decentralized.

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