David McWilliams
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17,921 appearances
50 recordings
8 series
first heard Jan 2026
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But he's not wrong.
So this is his argument, right?
Yeah.
And his argument is that if
Looking back over a thousand years.
Innovation is a story of elites.
Capturing the high moral and physical and political and monetary ground.
Then it's not the story of shared prosperity.
So he gives examples like cotton.
You know, the Haberbosch, the idea of fertilizers, the process of enabling chemical weapons, workers only gain you know, he gives lots and lots of examples, right?
But his basic idea is that in order for AI or any technology to be totally useful
And add to shared prosperity, it needs to be managed, it needs to be regulated.
So his real worry isn't productivity.
an economics narrow gauge, what I would call economistic worldviews.
His real things, Johnson, is the survival of democracy, of peace and society.
You know, he warns that if a large part of graduates lose their jobs, as some AI guys are saying, you're gonna have a revolution.
What did you call that again?
Elite overproduction at a time of technological change equals you know, elite overproduction plus technological change equals disaster.
That's our that's the John Davis equation for the world, okay?
So
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