David Friedberg

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826 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Jul

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Sourcery · David Friedberg on the Economic Crisis Nobody Wants to Fix · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

I can't pay my rent.

I can't buy food.

I'm like, of course socialism's, what else is, where are the other options?

Yeah, so that's bullshit.

I don't say it's bullshit to dismiss people's anxiety.

I say it's bullshit to just be truthful about the facts on the ground.

As soon as AI starts deleting jobs from the economy, I will change my position on this.

But I need to see it factually happen first.

There was a Newsweek article.

You can pull it up.

1963.

all about how computers are gonna take all jobs and America's gonna run out of jobs.

We're gonna get rid of all jobs.

1963, Newsweek.

The mainframe.

So at that time, there was this fear-mongering that was happening that these big mainframe computers, these big, scary electronic boxes that were getting installed in high-rises and in basements were starting to do the things that we all do.

Accounting, typing, calculations.

all these things that mainframe started to do, we were like, what are all the typists going to do?

What are all the telex operators going to do?

What are all the calculators going to do, the people that do all the calculations?

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