Jeffrey Sachs
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first heard Oct 2024
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The robots can do physical labor and the AI can do cognitive work of various kinds.
Is that a good thing?
In principle, again, if it's done thoughtfully, it could very well be a good thing because we would have more time for friends, for family, for leisure, for culture, for exploration, for other things, if the drudge work is actually carried out mechanically.
And so per se,
Earlier technologies, it's not true that they've always created new jobs to replace the old jobs.
We actually work less hours per day on average than 100 years ago, by far, as a matter of fact.
The numbers are quite astounding.
The average work time of an adult American is about three hours, 20 minutes at this point, something like that.
That's for an economy of a $30 trillion output.
Now, that counts weekend time, that counts retirement time, that counts time in school, that counts vacation time, leisure time, and so on.
But the point is, we don't work like our grandparents and great-grandparents did.
They worked not only at physical labor, but they worked around the clock, maybe six days a week.
And this is a big change, and on the whole, I believe it's a plus.
But American society, as we've been discussing, is quite distinctive.
It's barely a society.
Our political system is so corrupted, it's not regarded as a society, it's regarded as a group of particular interests, of which Silicon Valley itself is interest group number one.
It's more powerful than every other interest group.
Partly because the generals are desperate for this technology.
The military, the government has put its hands into Palantir.
Palantir is more important than the rest of our government.
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