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In the AI Economy, There Will Be Zero Percent Unemployment

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Re: In the AI Economy, There Will Be Zero Percent Unemployment

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TLDR: "The future is bigger than we can imagine.

Change is equally hard to comprehend. Two centuries ago, 80 percent of the U.S. population worked on farms. If you told one of those farmers that in 2024 barely 1 percent of the population would work on farms, he'd have a difficult time imagining what the other 79 percent of the population would do with their time. If you then tried to explain what an average income could purchase in the way of a Netflix subscription, airplane transportation, and a car, he'd think you were insane. The same principle applies to imagining life 50 years from now."

Re: In the AI Economy, There Will Be Zero Percent Unemployment

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except for the very vague argument that tech disruptions in the past created more jobs there is not really any argument supporting that claim.

Would have been nice to explain how people would be employed in an AI scenario and how they would benefit from the surpluses created by it.

Re: In the AI Economy, There Will Be Zero Percent Unemployment

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TLDR: "The future is bigger than we can imagine. Change is equally hard to comprehend. Two centuries ago, 80 percent of the U.S. population worked on farms. If you told one of those farmers that in 2024 barely 1 percent of the population would work on farms, he'd have a difficult time imagining what the other 79 percent of the population would do with their time. If you then tried to explain what an average income co…

Makes me sound old, but I'm sort of glad we don't live forever. Putting up with that kind of change sounds miserable.
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