>Cutting out that middle band of ability and resources is a surefire recipe for social unrest.
I don't know, the US has been pushing that envelope for 40+ years and people are still paying taxes...
I don't know, the US has been pushing that envelope for 40+ years and people are still paying taxes...
And people can push the "meth consumption" envelope for years before they finally die from it, too.
Getting away with unsustainable practices for X amount of time doesn't prove they're sustainable and won't end in collapse. It just means collapse can take more than X amount of time.
To claim AI tools will strip out the wealth of the middle class and cause unrest can be disproved by the fact that it was beaten to it by the US corporations by over a generation.
The "middle class" was an invention of post war US to reward the soldiers who fought in Europe and the Pacific. Things are just reverting to a more long (as in multiple centuries) trend behavior of economies. Few haves, lots of have-nots and barely anything in between.