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Arnold Kling's avatar

Walk me through this socialism. Who does trash pickup? Who goes out on the ocean and catches fish? What process organizes the production of a pencil, or a toaster, or a computer? What if 90 percent of us have a dream job of being a rock star--do we all get to be rock stars?

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Tina Stolberg's avatar

And here comes AI (great piece in The Free Press substack today debating the merits of AI) whereby the tech wizards will charge us for the privilege of stealing ALL of our combined talents and data to produce their products. They will make open source impossible or illegal, just like the internet which was supposed to be free. Who's gonna pay for the tremendous amount of energy its going to suck up and then spit out into our fragile world? And someone please tell me how AI will create more jobs than it will eliminate when the current sad state of affairs is that our students are failing simple math and can't read at grade level? Is the rich tech elite going swoop down and magically save 4 decades of declining worker rights?

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