lmao this made me die <| sep |> I see people who I went to school with , people at shops , and . yeah . I wouldn ' t hire and or trust 80 % of the population . <| sep |> You ' re getting ripped off if you ' re only getting $ 7 . 50 . Target base pay went up to $ 10 in April . <| sep |> Hey , if you ' re having a bad day and get depressed , be thankful that you ' re not whatever THAT is . Disclaimer This user cannot verify whether or not this comment has been edited by uspez <| sep |> I dont find it all that useful to use Austrian school definitions of human action . Extending the definition of economic behavior beyond humans and even beyond biological life to autonomous systems does not take anything away from arguments about economic behavior but it is useful in describing a wider range of causes and effects found in nature . Maybe I should talk about game theory here rather than economics though . The way I see the mind controlled society happening is not all at once but as a series of medical advances to limit particular human desires as if they are mental illnesses . There wouldn ' t be a clear cut of point in which you could say that that a human isnt human any more and in fact the range of potential actions may expand faster in in the range of allowable behavior faster than the boundaries of allowable behavior contract . David Friedman ' s future imperfect description of a wold of mass surveillance and perfect communication secrecy comes to mind here . I don ' t really have an objection to your point though . Given the definition of economic action you are using , reducing humans to Borg isnt a solution to the economic calculation problem . Of course a central planner might be happy to not solve the ECP and simply kill or control everyone . Its not impossible for such a thing to exist . Thats the point I was trying to make not that it is a real solution to the ECP but that it is a potential stable thing to exist in the world . Something that would be very difficult to come back from .