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I look at the AI problem as a misalignment of goals. If you're a company owner, you think in terms of products and costs. The product is the end goal. Build it faster, build it cheaper, ship it.
Most of us will never be company owners.
If you're an average person, the goal is economy. I want to have a job so you can have a job so we can all pay our bills and have a high quality of life.
Henry Ford understood this, even if he was a deeply flawed person. He paid his workers enough to buy the cars they were building. Not out of charity. Because he understood that if nobody can afford the product, there is no product.
So AI coming after the "easy" entry-level jobs is the real problem. It's not about whether AI can do the work. It's that removing those jobs breaks the whole chain. Junior becomes senior. Senior becomes lead. That pipeline is how people build skills, earn more, spend more. It's how an economy actually works.
There's an old idea that spending a dollar locally in your town creates something like ten times that in economic activity. Your dollar pays the barber, who buys groceries, who tips the delivery driver. Siphoning even more money into a handful of huge companies doesn't create that kind of chain. It just accelerates the decline of the communities where most of us actually live.
I don't think turning us into a UBI beggar state is the answer, Sam.