Kai Ryssdal

As our population ages on average, right?

More people drawing social services later in life, fewer younger people coming on board, overlay restrictions at the border, and you have, you know, it's going to turn us into Japan here.

So that is a big issue.

It is possible that equivalent in scale to that issue is during this disruptive period where AI comes on board and a lot of people get thrown out of work, at least for now, they're not going to pay taxes.

Robots don't pay taxes.

So when Jack Dorsey lays off 40% to 50% of his people the other day, he said it was AI.

I don't know.

What do you think?

Everybody's saying AI.

Assuming just for a moment, take him at his word that it was AI.

If they don't get jobs, they're not going to pay income tax.

And they're actually tech companies sweating this because they're seeing this before other people are seeing this.

And so what does that mean for the ability to run a country if the machines are doing a lot of the work?

Now, counter-argument, because we try to be open and evoke so many sides to any of these issues.

I'm not an advocate.

The counter argument is, super empowered by artificial intelligence, Kai and I are going to be doing 19 radio shows at once.

Yeah, I know.

And we're going to be paid so much that we're going to be paying a lot of income tax.

Right.

That's the counter argument to this.